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

Build and maintain foundational embedded firmware for multiple microcontrollers in an autonomous vehicle platform. Develop real-time C/C++ code, author design/requirements, coordinate test strategies with V&V, troubleshoot field issues, and integrate firmware with off-vehicle tooling (Python). Ensure safety, stability, performance, and security across MCU platforms.

Provide technical leadership for embedded camera platforms, owning system architecture, on-device software, encoding, storage, streaming, and edge analytics. Lead JDM partner integration, cross-functional alignment, mentorship, architecture/code reviews, and adoption of AI-driven development tools to deliver robust edge devices.

Develop and maintain reliable flight software and firmware for satellite flight computers, earth station hubs, and custom control hardware. Responsibilities include architecture, design, C++ development, communication protocol integration, continuous integration, automated testing, code reviews, hardware-software integration, and cross-functional collaboration. The engineer will deliver complex projects incrementally and mentor junior engineers across commercial and U.S. Government programs.

Lead ownership of Dapster's robotic system, writing code for sensors and interfaces, integrating devices, and contributing to foundational technology.

Own design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft. Build and maintain IPC, OTA, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces on embedded Linux. Deliver production Rust/C++ code, lead cross-service architecture, debug across software/hardware boundaries, and establish safe, diagnosable engineering practices.

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.

As an Embedded Firmware Engineer, you'll design and build critical flight software for drones, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with various engineering disciplines.

Design, develop, and optimize platform-level embedded software and reusable frameworks for telecom products (including 5G). Collaborate across systems teams, perform architecture and code reviews, support integrations with customers/partners, and mentor engineers while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability on heterogeneous processors.

Design, implement, and maintain embedded Linux system software and firmware for the Pod. Own platform security including secure boot, key management, and device trust. Partner with manufacturing for production tests and deployments. Optimize resource-constrained compute workloads and ensure reliability, documentation, and fleet security.

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.

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.

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

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

Design and implement high-reliability embedded firmware for a satellite user terminal: low-level drivers, beamforming control, networking optimization, thermal and power management, secure boot/OTA, hardware debugging, and RTOS/Embedded Linux integration to enable real-time beam steering and high-throughput communications.

Design and implement automated tests, frameworks, and fixtures for embedded hardware and software. Execute regression, performance, stress, and reliability tests. Build and maintain R&D and production test environments, collaborate to debug firmware and hardware, define testability in design reviews, support manufacturing partners, and enable customers onsite (10-20% travel).

Provides technical leadership for designing, developing, optimizing, porting, and certifying GPGPU and AI inference libraries built on Vulkan SC drivers. The role targets embedded GPU platforms such as Arm Mali and Intel, maintains AI model testing infrastructure, defines validation standards, supports customer deployments, and troubleshoots drivers. It also involves documentation, competitive analysis, cross-functional architecture decisions, mentoring, onboarding, and exploring emerging AI compute capabilities.

Develop and maintain embedded firmware and kernel/user-mode device drivers for Ethernet-based networking devices. Design, implement, test, and integrate drivers into a Linux and AUTOSAR communication stack, build SDK components, and create debug/test utilities and automated unit/system tests for safety-critical automotive applications.

Join the Device Software team to design and implement software for SPAN's hardware products using C and C++. Collaborate on projects focusing on microcontroller features and system design, emphasizing reliability and user experience.

The role involves developing software for embedded devices, managing integrations with third-party devices, and leading implementations while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, implement, and maintain the embedded Linux OS platform for on-vehicle devices. Configure Yocto and U-Boot, develop kernel-space components and drivers, optimize performance, support hardware bring-up, manufacturing, and cross-functional integrations.

Optimize Ubuntu integration across latest IoT and server-class hardware, lead customer engagements, and work with open source communities in a remote, collaborative environment.

Serve as an embedded Linux expert on customer projects: design and refactor real-time architectures, develop Linux kernel drivers, debug low-level hardware/software issues, optimize kernel performance, collaborate with customers and internal teams, lead technical efforts, produce high-quality deliverables, and create technical proposals to support product lifecycle and certification.

Design and implement embedded firmware and low-level software for server BMCs and GPU/HPC platforms. Enhance OpenBMC, enable real-time telemetry of power/thermal sensors, debug low-level drivers and interfaces, validate hardware-firmware integration, and contribute to long-term firmware architecture for cluster reliability.