Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Lightmatter7 days ago
Boston, MA, USA or Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define control-plane architecture for photonic interconnect products in collaboration with multidisciplinary hardware and software teams.
- Define diagnostics and monitoring architecture for photonic transceivers.
- Integrate with data center administration capabilities using CMIS, OpenBMC, and DMTF environments.
- Debug and troubleshoot embedded systems using GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
- Participate in customer engagements to gather requirements and usability criteria.
- Develop and extend device software and firmware for photonic compute and interconnect products.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or master’s degree and 6+ years of experience, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related technical field.
- Industry experience with device-driver and kernel-side development.
- Strong understanding of hardware-software integration and embedded-system communication, control, peripherals, and buses.
- Experience developing commercial or enterprise-level software and firmware on Linux.
- Experience using Git and CMake to build and manage software projects.
- Hands-on experience designing, simulating, or deploying control of autonomous systems.
- Proficiency with Python or C++.
- Familiarity with GDB, JTAG, and logic analyzers.
- Experience developing firmware for photonic transceivers or similar systems.
- Experience with CMIS, OpenBMC, DMTF, optical communication systems, or related technologies.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision healthcare plan.
- Retirement savings matching program.
- Basic, voluntary, and AD&D life insurance.
- Vacation, sick, and public holiday time off.
- Paid family leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Commuter benefits.
- Flexible hybrid workplace model.
- Equity grants for eligible full-time employees.