Senior Firmware Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Tactical Recon & Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from paper sketches to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team in Atlanta! 

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Develop and ship production firmware for avionics, launch and ground support solutions, integrating with embedded Linux-based software and electro-mechanical end-to-end systems
• Implement and share ownership of existing CICD pipelines (evaluation hooks, performance/quality guardrails, and integration surfaces)
• Design and implement fault-tolerant low-level firmware drivers, middleware, and application software for microcontrollers in an RTOS environment (e.g., Zephyr), effectively managing concurrency and resource sharing through mutexes, semaphores, message queues, and event flags
• Collaborate on architecture and design emphasizing balance between loosely coupled concepts while considering determinism, complexity, stability, latency, power and memory constraints.
• Build firmware evaluation tools that interrogate code at compile-time and runtime, for quality, ruggedness and performance, in both virtual and on-target environments
• Help select microcontrollers and peripherals and review schematics with electrical engineering team
• Partner cross-functionally (software, hardware, mechanical, test and automation) to debug, profile and harden systems to persist in the face of real-world challenges

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
• Experience: 7+ years of experience in firmware/embedded software development, with a focus on embedded systems.
• Strong C or C++ coding ability for embedded systems
• Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
• Extensive experience with popular RTOS platforms and a strong understanding of real-time scheduling algorithms and task management
• Experience developing firmware in bare-metal environments
• Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
• Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
• Familiarity with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.
• Experience running unit tests, nightly build hardware in the loop validations, static code analysis
• Experience operating and deploying Continuous Integration Tools (ie. Jenkins, CircleCI, JFrog Artifactory) and automatic build environments (Ninja, Cmake, Makefiles, etc.)
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Experience developing custom boards within the Zephyr RTOS ecosystem
• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use