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Lead Device Software Engineer

Sauron Systems

San Francisco$210k–250kOn-site1mo ago
Employment
Full-time
Seniority
Lead

About the role

  • Develop from scratch and maintain embedded Linux platforms, from BSP to application level.
  • Work with electrical, mechanical, perception/ML, backend, and mobile teams to define architectures for new on-device software.
  • Build and maintain embedded software that interface with sensors, cameras, and motors.
  • Drive features end-to-end through the full software lifecycle: design, implementation, validation, and production rollout.
  • Build and improve embedded build systems, CI/CD, and automated test environments; plan and execute test procedures across unit, HIL, and on-device validation.
  • Root-cause and resolve issues using remote fleet diagnostics, telemetry, and local hardware test platforms; define logging and observability standards.
  • 8+ years of professional experience developing device software for hardware products with experience shipping multiple consumer products end to end. 
  • Experience with Linux on embedded/constrained systems, such as Yocto, or AOSP.
  • Experience writing C/C++ for Linux, FreeRTOS, and bare-metal systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to write multi-threaded, highly reliable code.
  • Strong grasp of software lifecycle best practices: code reviews, version control, unit/integration testing, CI, and on-hardware validation.
  • Understanding of the manufacturing process, including device testing, validation, calibration and fusing.
  • Ideally been a past team lead or manager
  • Experience building custom embedded Linux distributions with Yocto
  • Experience with ARM Trustzone, and OP-TEE
  • Experience with FreeRTOS
  • Background contributing to or growing high-performance software teams.
  • We celebrate as a team and troubleshoot as a team.
  • The goal is the mission, not the credit.
  • Be ruthless with problems, but kind to people.
  • Raise the bar, lower the shield
  • Your perspective is a requirement, not a suggestion.
  • Speak the hard truths early so we can fix them fast.
  • Do what you say you’ll do.
  • If it breaks, fix it. If it works, make it better.
  • Earn trust through empathy and consistency.
  • Anticipate needs before they become requests.

Compensation

Perks & benefits

  • Equity Compensation

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