Embedded Software Engineer (C/C++/Python)

Location: Boston, United States; on-site

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 per year plus equity; compensation varies with experience.

What you will do

• Architect, design, implement, and debug embedded software across bare-metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux environments.
• Develop firmware, Linux drivers, user-space applications, and host-PC tools across the embedded software stack.
• Build software for heterogeneous multi-core RISC-V and ARM SoCs, including inter-processor communication, synchronization, and resource sharing.
• Implement multi-threaded and multi-core architectures optimized for power, performance, determinism, and reliability.
• Develop peripheral drivers and debug systems using JTAG/SWD, in-circuit emulators, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
• Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, systems, IC design, test, and physics engineers on board bring-up, interface validation, architecture decisions, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in embedded firmware and Linux software development.
• Strong proficiency in C, C++, and Python for embedded and deeply embedded programming.
• Deep experience with bare-metal firmware, interrupt-driven systems, hardware bring-up, embedded Linux build systems, user-space applications, drivers, and device trees.
• Experience with heterogeneous multi-core RISC-V or ARM processors, multi-threaded and multi-core design, and peripherals including I2C, SPI, UART, DMA, and GPIO.
• Ability to analyze and optimize performance across the hardware/software boundary, with proficiency in tools such as GDB, OpenOCD, and Lauterbach.

Nice to have

• Experience with Yocto, PetaLinux, Buildroot, or similar embedded Linux build systems.
• Familiarity with RPMsg, shared memory, and message queues in heterogeneous SoC environments.
• Experience integrating firmware with FPGA-based systems or custom ASICs, including AMD/Xilinx Vitis environments.
• Knowledge of network protocols and socket-based host-PC applications.
• Experience with continuous integration, test automation, Git, and version control.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering environment with ownership of complex features from architecture through deployment.
• Close cross-functional collaboration across systems, IC design, test, physics, hardware, FPGA, and systems engineering.
• Equity compensation is offered in addition to salary.