Senior Embedded Software Engineer

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Spot team, you will be part of a highly collaborative group that is passionate about innovation — and of course, robots! In this role, you will define and create key software infrastructure components which let our robots operate in a performant, reliable, secure, and scalable fashion. You’ll work closely with other software developers, hardware developers, and product managers to deliver great robots to our customers.

• Create tool chains for building, verifying, and deploying system images across a variety of computer architectures.
• Address systems performance issues: debug issues encountered in the field, build instrumentation and diagnostic tools, and architect high-performance infrastructure components such as IPC systems or process/thread scheduling approaches.
• Enable new hardware innovations: derisk designs during early phases, create overall software system architecture, and create device drivers or kernel support where needed.
• Ensure the security of our products using techniques like Secure Boot, Disk Encryption, Process Sandboxing, and Access Controls.
• Communicate designs and best practices across the broader organization.
• Mentor junior engineers and share your expertise.

• Linux expertise — at both kernel and user spaces. You should have a deep understanding of processes, threads, interrupt handling, file systems, IPC mechanisms, memory management, systemd, and other components.
• 8+ years of prior software development in C/C++, as well as shell scripting or Python.
• Excellent debugging skills — both overall methodology as well as knowledge of available tools.
• Performance optimization of systems.

• Embedded Linux and Real Time Linux experience.
• Working knowledge of hardware-accelerated compute pipelines (GPUs, ML accelerators, DSPs, etc).
• Experience with common hardware protocols such as PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Hardware bring-up and debugging, including the ability to read schematics/datasheets and use common tools.

We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas for this position.