# Senior Embedded Software Engineer

About Orbit We're a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers working to deepen our understanding of the human brain. We're building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion, with the goal of putting human experience and wellbeing at the center of technology. Our work spans neural sensors, embedded systems, scientific software, and AI. We're venture funded, with backing from founders and executives across AI, neurotechnology, consumer hardware, and pharmaceuticals, including Google, Hugging Face, Apple, Stability, Microsoft, and Dropbox. About the role Help turn a sophisticated optical sensing system into a high-performance wearable for understanding the brain. You'll shape how our wearable acquires, processes, and delivers neural measurements, working closely with hardware and signal-processing engineers. Our platform combines C++23, embedded Linux built with the Yocto Project, and modern sensing hardware, with gRPC and Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) connecting acquisition software to the wider system. We tackle deep design challenges in timing, concurrency, memory, and throughput. The embedded firmware you design will directly empower individuals wi

- **Id**: 3991284
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/orbit-senior-embedded-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:31:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Description chars**: 4542
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Neurotech & Neuromodulation

## Company

- **Id**: 4403680
- **Name**: Orbit
- **Domain**: orbitneuro.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/orbit-8>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 215000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 215000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CMake** — Optional: no
- **Dropbox** — Optional: no
- **FreeRTOS** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MQTT** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RTOS** — Optional: no
- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **U-Boot** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **VHDL** — Optional: no
- **ZeroMQ** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T23:29:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T02:23:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 215000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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