Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded

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# Company Overview Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots. We are currently operating in stealth and are growing the world’s best team in AI robotics. We are looking for self-starters that are the world’s best in their field, who can innovate from a deep understanding of the fundamentals, and who share our values of unwavering truth seeking and integrity, humility, curiosity, and relentless determination. # Role Description We are looking to recruit an exceptional **Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded** to develop the foundational software that keeps our robot hardware alive, building the core systems that provide a platform for robust, safe, and deterministic operation. In this role you will: - Adapt and integrate a safety certifiable Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and associated drivers for purpose built robotic control hardware. - Collaborate with hardware engineers to design, develop, and optimize high performance safety-critical systems. - Develop and adapt device drivers for hardware peripherals (e.g. GPIO, EtherCAT, SPI). - Build tools to monitor, verify and optimize real time system performance, ensuring deterministic behavior. - Contribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development. - Collaborate with functional safety engineers to ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support audit and traceability requirements. - Develop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies. - Solve complex, real-world challenges alongside a multi-disciplinary team # Qualifications *Must-have:* - MS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline. - Experience with safety-certifiable RTOSes (e.g. PX5, ThreadX, SafeRTOS). - Expertise in OS fundamentals, including real-time scheduling and memory management. - Strong understanding of ARM 64 hardware architecture. - Experience with multicore SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and atomic operations. - Production experience with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN) - Proficiency in low level programming (C, assembly) - Understanding of bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers and board support packages (BSPs). - Hands-on experience with development tools including oscilloscopes, hardware debuggers and high speed tracing techniques (e.g. HSSTP). - Understanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools) - Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts, MISRA compliance and related standards. - Self-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions. - Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics. *Nice-to-have:* - Knowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions. - Proficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Rust, Golang). - Experience with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob). - Familiarity with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh). - Experience with Docker, and related containerization tools.