Senior Embedded Engineer Details

Senior Embedded Engineer

Root AI - Woburn, MA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Senior Firmware EngineerThis is a rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a well-funded agricultural robotics startup. You'd report directly to head of Electrical Engineering. Offers come with a substantial equity grant, and our culture is built around shared wins. Success in the role will rapidly yield significant professional and personal growth. Root.ai is seeking to make transformative changes in the way greenhouse-grown fruit is harvested. Our flagship product, Virgo, combines sophisticated robotics with advanced machine learning/computer vision techniques. We need your help designing the electronics to enable this vision. We are looking for a senior-level Firmware/Electrical engineer. A candidate who has the right fit must believe in our mission, and be excited to work in a small, dynamic startup team in the agricultural robotics space.You have:

• Prior professional experience in firmware development, and writing C code for bare-metal embedded systems.
• Prior experience in a crossfunctional research and development team.
• Strong grasp of C programming, plus some supplementary scripting ability.
• Comfort working closely with hardware at an electronics level. You should be ace with an oscilloscope, logic analyzer, and rework equipment.

• 4+ years of professional experience.
• Demonstrated product development experience; ideally with one shipped product.
• Strong grasp of Python for scripting, and git for version control.
• Experience designing circuit boards, as well as programming them.

• Motor Control
• Data Acquisition/Signal Processing
• Real Time Operating Systems (We use a mix of FreeRTOS and bare-metal. This role is mostly focused on bare metal. Plenty of room to grow into the RTOS space, however.)
• GNU tooling/toolchains for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers (We use MCUs from ST Micro.)