Staff Embedded Linux Engineer
📌Sunnyvale, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 175000
Ceribell is a medical technology company focused on transforming the diagnosis and management of patients with serious neurological conditions. The Ceribell System is a novel, point-of-care electroencephalography (“EEG”) platform specifically designed to address the unmet needs of patients in the acute care setting, and is being used in hundreds of community hospitals, large academic facilities and major IDN’s across the country. Our entire team is driven by a shared commitment to transforming the landscape of critical care through our rapid seizure detection technology, come join the movement!
Position Description
Ceribell is looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer / Senior Embedded Engineer who is passionate about biomedical applications and who has experience in the development of embedded or IoT products. The successful candidate will join the R&D team and will play a key role in the development of the next generation of Ceribell’s life saving technologies. Our firmware development stack is based around a STMicroelectronics STM32 ARM Cortex microcontroller and we use FreeRTOS, the IAR Embedded Workbench, and the TouchGFX framework. You must be able to work collaboratively as part of a cross-functional R&D team, but you must also be able to take individual ownership for development, testing, and documentation of your projects.
Ceribell is looking for a Staff Embedded Linux Software Engineer who is passionate about biomedical applications and who has experience in the development of embedded Linux-based products. The successful candidate will join the R&D team and will play a key role in the development of the next generation of Ceribell’s life saving technologies. You must be able to work collaboratively as part of a cross-functional R&D team, but you must also be able to take individual ownership for development, testing, and documentation of your projects.
What You'll Achieve
- Develop, test, and maintain software features for Ceribell’s EEG systems.
- Work with cross-compilation toolchains, build systems (Yocto, Buildroot, or similar), bootloaders, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop, integrate, and debug device drivers for various peripherals (I²C, SPI, UART, USB, PCIe, etc.).
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the software/hardware boundary.
- Understand user needs and translate them to the development of new and improved features.
- Participate in code reviews, peer reviews, and risk management activities.
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Provide input on firmware and hardware architecture for new and existing products.
- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering, computer science, biomedical engineering or related field. Graduate degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in embedded software development of a commercial product. Medical device experience preferred.
- 3+ years of professional experience in embedded Linux software development, interfacing with peripherals, and configuring device drivers and associated toolchains, e.g. Ubuntu, Torizon, Yocto, Buildroot.
- Experience with bootloaders (U-Boot, security-boot), and system startup.
- Experience with GUI-based application development in e.g. Qt preferred.
- Experience using Git for version control.
- Proficient in C/C++.
- Direct experience with development of WiFi connected/IoT devices preferred.
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Strong analytical skills, detail-oriented and collaborative.
- Annual Bonus + Equity Opportunity
- 100% Employer paid Health Benefits for Employees
- 50% - 70% Employer paid Health, Dental & Vision for dependents (depending on plan selection)
- 100% paid Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) with a generous company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with a discount
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Flexible paid time off
- 11 Paid Holidays + 5 Company Wellness Days
- Excellent parental leave policy
- Fantastic culture with tremendous career advancement opportunities
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Joining a mission-minded organization!
$175,000—$200,000 USD
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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