Top Senior Embedded Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Owns the design, development, testing, and optimization of safety-critical vehicle firmware on resource-constrained platforms. Responsibilities include RTOS applications, communication architectures, bootloaders, device drivers, board and SoC bring-up, automated testing, debugging, and production deployment. The role leads cross-functional projects, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, and establishes embedded engineering standards for reliable autonomous transit vehicles.

Own embedded software across microcontrollers, RTOS environments, embedded Linux, and robot runtime components. Design firmware, drivers, real-time services, communications, diagnostics, calibration, recovery, and hardware interfaces. Bring up electronics, measure system performance, investigate integrated-machine failures, and build simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, fault-injection, and regression testing. Ensure software is observable, recoverable, version-compatible, and reliable under degraded conditions.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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