Embedded Engineer

# Embedded Engineer Mid level

Software Engineering San Francisco On-Site Full-Time Posted 2 days ago## About the role Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. We are a team of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.
** The team
** This role is part of the Runtime team, but will include deep collaboration with the Research, Hardware, and Fleet teams.
** In this role you will:
*** Drive the architecture and implementation of embedded firmware for devices crucial to PI’s data collection goals
* Work with hardware and software teams to ensure the new devices we are building work seamlessly with existing and future data pipelines
* Embedded Linux System Bring-up:
Lead the integration of embedded Linux devices with real-time sensor processing. This includes developing drivers for high-speed sensors, BSP development and customization, kernel configuration and debugging, hardware bring-up, and performance tuning across the hardware/software boundary.
* Hardware/Software Debugging:
Use hardware abstraction tools and laboratory equipment to identify and resolve complex timing issues, race conditions, and hardware-software interface bugs.
* Power Optimization:
Analyze and reduce power consumption for battery-operated devices, including on radio sleep states and sensor low-power modes.
** What we hope you'll bring:
*** BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
* Strong software engineering and infrastructure skills, including building data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and tools for rapid iteration.
* Comfort working hands-on with hardware.
* Strong communication skills for collaborating with hardware, software, and research teams
* Demonstrated experience leading initiatives from concept to production on aggressive schedules, and turning ambiguous product goals into functional requirements
* Experience leading initial board bring-up and software design for first-of-their-kind embedded devices.
* Hands-on experience with SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and the ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.
* Experience architecting, implementing and debugging concurrent and multithreaded firmware services
* Deep understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.
* Experience bringing up and integrating sensors on embedded systems; camera system bring-up, integration, and tuning is a plus.
* Proficiency in C++
* Familiarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.
** Bonus points if you have:
*** Nice to have:
Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.
* Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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