Embedded Software Engineer - Unix Systems & Integration

🎯 Role Details

• Develop Linux-based real-time software services for robotic sensing, actuation, and control coordination
• Integrate and maintain low-level drivers and kernel modules for sensors, actuators, and high-speed communication interfaces
• Optimize system performance via scheduler tuning, CPU isolation, IRQ affinity, memory locking, and I/O optimization
• Design and implement low-latency IPC pipelines connecting AI, perception, and hardware control components
• Build and maintain distributed robotics infrastructure including logging, monitoring, diagnostics, and fault handling
• Develop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing frameworks and CI tools for embedded and robotic systems
• Collaborate closely with firmware, controls, mechanical, and AI teams to deliver end-to-end robotic capabilities
• Contribute to middleware and runtime systems handling high-rate, multi-modal data in dexterous robotic hands

⚡ Requirements

Required

• BS or MS in Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong experience with C/C++ or Rust on embedded Linux systems
• Solid Linux system programming background:
  • Multithreading and scheduling
  • IPC (shared memory, sockets, message queues)
  • Memory management and synchronization
• Familiarity with real-time Linux concepts (PREEMPT_RT, low-latency tuning, or real-time user-space frameworks)
• Hands-on experience developing Linux device drivers or integrating kernel modules
• Experience with Linux build systems and distributions (Yocto, Buildroot, Debian-based systems)
• Experience with robotics communication interfaces:
  • CAN / CAN-FD
  • SPI / I2C / UART
  • EtherCAT or similar field buses
• Experience building high-rate sensing or control pipelines (IMUs, force/torque sensors, encoders, cameras)
• Comfortable debugging complex systems using:
  • perf, strace, ltrace, gdb
  • Logic analyzers and oscilloscopes

Nice to Have

• Experience with ROS / ROS2, DDS, or robotics middleware
• Familiarity with GPU/accelerator integration, ZeroMQ, or shared-memory IPC
• Understanding of motor control, PID tuning, or robot kinematics

Please also apply through our website directly https://www.proception.ai/careers