Senior Firmware Engineer (RTOS)
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About the role
Anduril is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team based in Costa Mesa, CA. The firmware team at Anduril develops core technology used across multiple products such as as Menace, Dive-XL, Ghost, and Roadrunner. We work in close coordination with Electrical Engineering to develop hardware and software solutions to some of the hardest problems facing our customers. You'll contribute low level firmware development for systems operating on land, sea, and air.
Responsibilities
- Develop low-level firmware/software for microcontrollers, create reusable device drivers, integrate system-level features and architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase
- Own complex firmware features of an embedded system
- Quickly debug and troubleshoot issues that span the electrical, firmware, and software boundaries
- Help select microcontrollers and peripherals and review schematics with electrical engineering team
- Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages
- Design, implement, and optimize real-time applications within an RTOS environment, managing tasks, threads, and inter-process communication for deterministic system behavior.
- Architect robust and fault-tolerant software using RTOS primitives such as mutexes, semaphores, message queues, and event flags to handle concurrency and resource sharing effectively.
- REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in firmware/embedded software development, with a focus on embedded systems.
- Strong C coding ability for embedded systems
- Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
- Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments
- Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
- Extensive experience with popular RTOS platforms (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr, RTX, ThreadX) and a strong understanding of real-time scheduling algorithms and task management.
- Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
- Solid experience with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Requirements
- Experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)
- Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it
- Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use
- US Salary Range
- $191,000 - $253,000 USD
Benefits
Additional Information
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.
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