Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Point One Navigation Inc1 month ago
Base Salary
$230k - $266k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and architecture of the core navigation engine across hardware platforms, devices, and customer applications.
- Integrate GNSS receivers, inertial sensors, wheel odometry, cameras, and other hardware through scalable abstractions.
- Drive performance tuning and low-level optimization on Linux-based ARM and x86 devices and bare-metal microcontrollers.
- Own board bring-up, driver development, hardware validation, and integration of new platforms and peripherals.
- Work with UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, gdb, JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes to resolve hardware-software and timing-critical issues.
- Translate customer needs into durable technical solutions and collaborate with hardware, firmware, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing teams.
- Design and maintain testing and verification strategies and proactively identify coverage gaps.
- Mentor junior engineers, establish best practices, and contribute to architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap planning.
- Use Python or similar tools for automation, scripting, and debugging.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with significant depth in embedded or platform-level systems.
- Ability to design and implement major software components from architecture through testing and production deployment.
- Ability to decompose high-level goals into actionable tasks, schedules, and milestones and deliver against commitments.
- Expertise in modern C++14 or later, including system-level programming, memory management, and concurrency.
- Strong experience with embedded Linux, RTOSes, and bare-metal systems.
- Hands-on experience with board bring-up, driver development, and timing-critical systems.
- Proficiency with UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, gdb, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
- Experience designing and owning testing and verification strategies for complex systems.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Bonus: experience with GNSS, state estimation, Kalman filtering, or inertial navigation.
- Bonus: knowledge of positioning technologies and error sources such as multipath, drift, and bias.
- Bonus: background in safety-critical or highly available systems in automotive, robotics, or aerospace.
- Bonus: familiarity with IP networking in Linux-based operating systems.
Benefits
- In-office three days per week in San Francisco, California
- High autonomy and opportunity for significant impact
- Opportunities for advancement through promotion from within
About Point One Navigation Inc
Point One is the first full-stack localization platform offering centimeter-accurate positioning designed for today’s most demanding applications. Precision location within minutes of setup, plus an intuitive and modern API. 100x more accurate than GPS with coverage in the United States, EU, UK, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and more.