About Wing: 

Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery. Originally created in 2012 within X, the Moonshot Factory, Wing is now an Alphabet company.

About the Role:

Wing is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team in Palo Alto, CA.  

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will use your experience developing real-time, embedded applications to enable the next-generation of unmanned technology.  In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of electrical, mechanical, and GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) engineers.   

What You’ll Do:

• Develop/improve/debug/maintain on-board SW modules interfacing with sensors, motors, servos and avionics
• Develop/improve/debug/maintain software services interacting with communication systems such as cellular modem and wireless network devices
• Develop and maintain device drivers for peripherals connected via SPI, CAN, UARTS, Ethernet, USB, and I2C
• Maintain and improve embedded build environments, and automated test environments
• Participate in the team's software processes, including: requirements and design documentation, test-plan generation and execution, peer design and code reviews, process feedback and improvements

What You'll Need:

• Must thrive and adapt to structured software development process (code reviews, version control, unit test development, on-hardware test & debugging)
• Demonstrated experience writing multi-threaded code for time critical and/or safety critical applications
• Proficient programming with C/C++ in a Linux environment
• Experience with one or more of:
• Implementing embedded security elements such as protecting data at rest, preventing unauthorized system access, and secure boot features
• Integrating various network technologies such as TCP-IP/IPV6, WiFi and Cellular
• Designing and implementing redundant systems
• Network connectivity reliability solutions
• Knowledge of electronics principles, including reading schematics and using logic analyzers, oscilloscope and other test equipment

Bonus:

• Master's degree
• Passion for Aviation or UAV (Drones)
• MatLab, Python, SQL, Bash
• Linux SysAdmin experience
• Experience developing for safety critical systems