Top Embedded Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Develop and maintain embedded software for radar sensors, communications, and flight systems. Perform Linux board bring-up, high-efficiency data movement between sensors, FPGAs, and compute, and build safety-critical control and FDIR algorithms. Collaborate with hardware, signal processing, and GNC teams, prototype architectures, and debug complex kernel-to-application issues across drivers, peripherals, and timing domains.

This position involves developing firmware for implantable systems, collaborating with engineers, and contributing to system improvements. Responsibilities include working with embedded systems and hardware understanding.

Design, develop, and maintain firmware for microcontroller-based IoT laser spectroscopy sensors. Support hardware bring-up, debug prototypes, implement serial communications, maintain revision control and CI/CD, automate manufacturing test/configuration, document designs, and perform firmware failure analysis and improvements.

As Lead Embedded Software Engineer, you will architect and build embedded software for LIDAR systems, leading a team in a dynamic environment.

Join the core camera software team to develop application software for embedded camera platforms (RTOS + Linux). Work on low-level OS code, system initialization, memory management, concurrency, and SOC-level development. Use the GNU toolchain, collaborate with backend and mobile teams, and contribute to device drivers and embedded platform code.

Develop software and systems for embedded platforms at Aquabyte, focusing on sensor interfaces, network reliability, and hardware diagnostics while collaborating with research teams on machine learning models.

The role involves developing low-level embedded software for vehicle control, integrating sensors, collaborating with various teams, and ensuring safety standards are met while mentoring junior developers.

Design, develop, and test embedded software for vehicle charging and power systems; integrate supplier subsystems; produce requirements, design docs, and test plans; collaborate cross-functionally across engineering teams; participate in prototyping through validation for safe, production-quality vehicle power control.

The Embedded Software Engineer will develop flight software for satellites, mentor junior members, and collaborate with teams to ensure software functionality.

The Embedded Linux Software Engineer will own the embedded software stack, collaborate with teams to integrate robotics systems, and manage software development for compute platforms.

Lead design, implementation, and optimization of a core navigation engine across diverse hardware. Own hardware integration, board bring-up, driver development, and timing-critical debugging. Drive testing, verification, performance tuning, and cross-team collaboration while mentoring junior engineers and improving engineering practices.

Develop and maintain embedded firmware and drivers for underwater robotic subsystems, prototype and bring up hardware, debug PCBs with lab tools, implement real-time control and communication stacks, support field deployments and production readiness, and create portable internal libraries. Collaborate across electrical, mechanical, and acoustics teams and ensure robust, memory-safe firmware.

As an Intern, you will design, write, and test software for satellites and ground control, working with the engineering team on performance management.

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will develop firmware for brain-computer interfaces, collaborating cross-functionally on safety-critical embedded systems and delivering manufacturable solutions.

Design, develop, and optimize bare-metal or RTOS/Embedded Linux firmware for a high-throughput satellite user terminal. Implement low-level drivers, beamforming control, real-time networking and power/thermal management, secure boot/OTA systems, and collaborate with hardware teams to debug and verify mission-critical RF and transceiver systems.

Design and implement low-level embedded software for x86/ARM platforms in C/C++; collaborate with hardware and software teams to spec, test, and debug vehicle subsystems and sensors (camera, radar, lidar, IMU); work on network devices and time synchronization; perform hands-on hardware bring-up and on-vehicle debugging of buses like I2C, CAN, SPI, UART; ensure reliability and safety for autonomous trucking systems.

The Embedded Software Engineer II will develop C/C++ code for an embedded Linux platform, perform debugging, and work on hardware integration.

Develop and run automated test frameworks and embedded firmware to validate radar payloads. Build HIL setups, control lab instruments, analyze performance data, and maintain CI pipelines to ensure hardware-software integration and space-readiness.

Develop, integrate, and test high-quality embedded C/C++ avionics software for X-BAT UAVs, interfacing with sensors, firmware, autonomy systems, and GCS; design CI/HIL test systems, produce documentation, and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Design and implement high-quality C/C++ embedded avionics software for X-Bat UAVs. Lead cross-functional teams, own features from design to production, integrate firmware and autonomy systems, and develop HIL/virtualized test environments. Produce architecture and test documentation, build CI/test tools, prototype concepts, and ensure reliability, safety, and compliance for aerospace deployments.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement embedded software for drones, provide technical architecture direction, and validate subsystems, focusing on hardware integration and debugging.

The Staff Software Engineer - Embedded at Skydio will lead embedded software development for drones, working on systems integration, firmware, and hardware debugging.

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Skydio, you'll architect and implement firmware for drones, collaborate with hardware teams, and validate key subsystems.

Design, develop, test, and integrate software systems for autonomous aerial suppression, working with cross-functional teams and hardware engineers.

The Embedded Software Engineer will design and maintain firmware for sensor nodes, integrate hardware modules, and improve system performance in real-world applications.