Embedded System Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 26, 2026.
Scope :
- The Hardware-Software Bridge: You own the software architecture and board bring-up, and you will talk with the operations team to understand workflows and design the software to simplify and speed up the data collection.
- Camera & Vision Pipelines: Moving high-bandwidth data without dropping frames, you will need to write V4L2 drivers, manage MIPI CSI-2 interfaces, video synchronisation and handle writing the data safely without dropping frames.
- Custom sensor firmware: Vision is not the only frontier, so you will need to write firmware for custom sensors and interface them with the main processor.
- System Architecture: You are designing for V1 to ship tomorrow, but are architecting the system boundaries so V2 doesn't require a total rewrite, with memory bottlenecks, DMA, and thermal throttling under your purview.
- Engineering Culture: Set the standard by working side-by-side with hardware engineers on component selection and schematic reviews, and build the foundation of how our embedded team operates.
Ideal Profile :
- The Pragmatic Builder: You care more about getting reliable data today than building the perfect architecture for five years from now, and you know when to duct-tape a dev board together to prove a concept and when to design a custom PCB to ensure reliability.
- Hardware-Software Bilingual: You don't throw problems over the fence, so if the software is acting up, you are comfortable probing the I2C lines or checking the power rails to prove whether it's a firmware bug or a hardware ghost.
- Egoless Engineering: You are happy to use a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) solution if it saves the company three months of runway and you don't suffer from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
- Systems Thinker: You understand the ripple effects of your code across the entire system and how it can constrain operations and the utility of the system.
Skills
Embedded System, Embedded C, Firmware, Embedded System Design, Sensor, Device Driver, PCB, Embedded System Architecture, Kernel Programming, Machine Vision