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

Embedded Software Engineering Intern developing Rust systems software for Linux userspace and integrating industrial hardware. Responsibilities include building hardware abstraction layers, communicating with sensors and controllers, debugging across software and hardware, using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes, writing tests, and participating in code reviews. The role offers hands-on experience with low-level programming, communication protocols, reliability, and safety-critical systems.

Develop production embedded software and firmware for robotic systems, including drivers, communication stacks, sensor and actuator interfaces, and real-time systems. Bring up custom hardware, debug electrical and software issues using lab tools, collaborate with electrical engineers, and establish manufacturing-oriented bring-up and testing processes.

Develop and maintain production C++ software running on autonomous vehicles. Integrate sensors and electromechanical systems, diagnose faults using data traces and lab rigs, deploy updates to field vehicles, enable new mission features, build fleet software tooling, and verify hardware-software integration on physical vehicles.

Develop embedded software and firmware for autonomous drones and accessories. Responsibilities include validating cameras, radios, and flight controllers; bringing up and debugging hardware; and writing device interfaces and drivers. The role uses bare-metal, RTOS, embedded Linux, and Android platforms, with close collaboration across hardware and software teams. Interns will also use C++, Python, schematics, and standard electronic debugging equipment to solve complex embedded systems problems.

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.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Develop embedded Linux software in C, userspace and kernel drivers, industrial communication protocols, and real-time control interfaces for an FPGA SoC instrument. Build hardware-in-the-loop tests, Python tooling, CI/CD and reproducible builds. Support hardware bring-up, board validation, lab debugging, architecture, documentation, and design reviews.

Own real-time embedded software for spacecraft avionics, including power distribution and thermal control systems. Responsibilities include board bring-up, low-level driver and control-loop development, hardware/software debugging, command and telemetry integration, firmware updates, fault-tolerant design, automated testing, HITL validation, anomaly investigation, and cross-functional architecture work.

Develop and verify safety-critical embedded C++ software for aircraft battery management systems and battery ground support chargers. Responsibilities include battery monitoring, protection, diagnostics, charging, thermal management, communications, system integration, architecture, roadmap planning, requirements, certification documentation, HIL testing, debugging high-voltage systems, and mentoring engineers. The role collaborates across software, hardware, battery, systems, algorithms, aircraft, and operations teams.

Develop and maintain embedded Linux operating systems for autonomous vehicle devices. Configure Yocto build systems and U-Boot bootloaders, develop device drivers and kernel components in C, C++, or Rust, optimize performance, support hardware bring-up and manufacturing, and collaborate across software, hardware, release, and operations teams.

Designs and develops embedded software and firmware for autonomous drones and accessories. Responsibilities include system architecture, vehicle software implementation, subsystem integration and validation, hardware bring-up, sensor and device drivers, Linux kernel and userspace development, debugging, optimization, and embedded security. The role collaborates closely with hardware and software teams and may involve bare-metal, RTOS, Linux, Android, microcontroller, and system-on-chip development.

Develop low-level software using C and embedded Linux for networking infrastructure. Apply operating system and networking fundamentals, automate workflows with Python or Bash, and support secure development through DevSecOps practices. The 12-week internship includes collaboration with product engineering teams, technical learning, and work on reliable, secure connectivity platforms.

Develop and test safety-critical embedded software for autonomous vehicle drive systems. Translate trajectories into motor, brake, and steering commands; build simulation, SIL, and HIL validation infrastructure; integrate steering, braking, motoring, and suspension subsystems; implement control-source arbitration and safety monitoring; and collaborate with controls, dynamics, safety, and validation teams.

Participate in a 12-week internship developing low-level software in C and embedded Linux for networking infrastructure. Apply operating system and networking fundamentals, automate workflows using Python or Bash, and support DevSecOps and security-focused development. Interns collaborate with engineering teams, build and maintain embedded software, and may gain exposure to FPGA development, signal integrity, power integrity, and PCB design.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Develop and optimize low-level embedded software and firmware for wireless communication systems. Integrate WiFi and 5G/LTE modules, support board bring-up, and validate hardware-software interactions. Optimize CPU, DSP, FPGA, and power performance; implement secure boot and OTA firmware updates; debug complex subsystem interactions; and collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams. Maintain technical documentation and participate in code reviews.

Develop and maintain embedded Linux firmware and cellular connectivity software for autonomous vehicle telematics control units. Integrate Qualcomm modem firmware and protocol stacks, architect host-side C/C++ interfaces, debug cross-layer LTE/5G issues, and support wireless platform prototyping. Build fleet telemetry and analytics systems, investigate field and QA issues, maintain Yocto-based Linux services and kernel code, automate testing, and collaborate with vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

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.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.

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.

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 portable, high-performance embedded software and HALs in Rust/C/C++ for industrial hardware. Integrate and debug devices/protocols (Modbus, SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, RS-485), use hardware tools (logic analyzers, oscilloscopes), reverse-engineer undocumented devices, ensure deterministic low-latency behavior, and validate system reliability to prevent unsafe failures.