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Our systems deliver high detail analysis reports on the fluids in\nindustrial machines and datacenters, allowing us to detect complex wear trends\nlike hydraulic cylinder failures or coolant contamination in real-time. With this\ndata we can automatically match anomalies with failure modes weeks to months\nbefore catastrophic failure occurs.\nOur team is a tightly knit group of builders, dropouts, and industry veterans.\nWe don’t build things that are good enough, we build things that are 100x better.\nRole Summary\nAs an Embedded Software Engineer at Omen, you will help plan and build the software that runs on our current and future products. You will be developing for our custom embedded sensors, implementing peripheral drivers, local data management, and connectivity to reliably get the data home. You'll also work closely with our hardware, R&D, and software teams in realizing our next generation of sensors, providing a technical voice in how our embedded platform evolves.\nIf you want to own a fascinating hardware problem from the ground up and build something that protects the most expensive infrastructure on the planet, we want to talk to you.\nResponsibilities\nDrive the Embedded Platform\nPlan and design the embedded software system for current and next-generation Omen sensors.\nDefine interfaces between firmware, on-device data processing, and our cloud platform.\nBuild Drivers and Firmware\nDevelop and maintain peripheral drivers (e.g. SPI, I2C, UART, ADCs, detector interfaces, pumps, valves, and high-voltage control).\nWrite production C/C++ for real-time control and data acquisition.\nBring up new hardware alongside the electrical team, debugging at the board level when needed.\nEngineer for Reliability\nLead reliability analysis for embedded systems: failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), watchdog and recovery strategies, and power-loss resilience.\nBuild automated and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) tests so every release is proven before it reaches a customer site.\nInvestigate field failures to root cause and feed the lessons back into design.\nHelp maintain a fail-safe OTA pipeline for a growing fleet of field devices.\nProvide Technical Direction\nSet coding standards, review code, and guide technical decisions across the embedded stack.\nAct as the bridge between hardware and software teams, translating constraints in both directions and writing clear design docs.\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications\nExperience developing embedded software for shipped hardware products, or equivalent hands-on experience.\nStrong proficiency with C and C++ for resource-constrained, real-time systems.\nStrong proficiency in Python for on-device Linux services, tooling, test automation, and data analysis.\nHands-on experience with an RTOS and with embedded Linux.\nExperience writing peripheral drivers from datasheets, and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD.\nProven ability to communicate clearly across hardware and software teams, including written design docs and technical reviews.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience providing technical direction or leading architecture on an embedded team.\nEmbedded Linux build systems (Yocto or Buildroot) and bootloaders (U-Boot, MCUboot).\nExperience designing or maintaining OTA update systems for field devices.\nEmbedded security: secure boot, signed firmware, and key management.\nIndustrial or datacenter protocols and connectivity, such as Modbus, CAN, IO-Link, MQTT, or cellular.\nFirmware for scientific instruments, sensors, or high-speed data acquisition.\nFormal reliability methods and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure and CI for firmware.\nPrior early-stage startup experience.\nBenefits\nPay: 160-190k base + equity\n100% medical, dental & vision coverage (for you)\nFlexible PTO\nFree food & snacks\nDaily in-office lunch provided\nDon't meet every bullet but excited about what we're doing? 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