{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"5269ebdabc16bfbf5850d77d","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5269ebdabc16bfbf5850d77d","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/5269ebdabc16bfbf5850d77d","title":"Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded","description":"Company Overview\nMaven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.\nWe 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.\nRole Description\nWe 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.\nIn this role you will:\nAdapt and integrate a safety certifiable Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and associated drivers for purpose built robotic control hardware.\nCollaborate with hardware engineers to design, develop, and optimize high performance safety-critical systems.\nDevelop and adapt device drivers for hardware peripherals (e.g. GPIO, EtherCAT, SPI).\nBuild tools to monitor, verify and optimize real time system performance, ensuring deterministic behavior.\nContribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.\nCollaborate with functional safety engineers to ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support audit and traceability requirements.\nDevelop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.\nSolve complex, real-world challenges alongside a multi-disciplinary team\nQualifications\nMust-have:\nMS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.\nExperience with safety-certifiable RTOSes (e.g. PX5, ThreadX, SafeRTOS).\nExpertise in OS fundamentals, including real-time scheduling and memory management.\nStrong understanding of ARM 64 hardware architecture.\nExperience with multicore SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and atomic operations.\nProduction experience with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN)\nProficiency in low level programming (C, assembly)\nUnderstanding of bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers and board support packages (BSPs).\nHands-on experience with development tools including oscilloscopes, hardware debuggers and high speed tracing techniques (e.g. HSSTP).\nUnderstanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)\nFamiliarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts, MISRA compliance and related standards.\nSelf-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.\nEnthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.\nNice-to-have:\nKnowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.\nProficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Rust, Golang).\nExperience with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).\nFamiliarity with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).\nExperience with Docker, and related containerization tools.","company":"Maven Robotics","rawCompany":"maven robotics","city":"Alameda","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-06T13:30:53.430Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.08","title":"Robotics Engineers","slug":"robotics-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded","description":"Company Overview\nMaven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.\nWe 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.\nRole Description\nWe 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.\nIn this role you will:\nAdapt and integrate a safety certifiable Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and associated drivers for purpose built robotic control hardware.\nCollaborate with hardware engineers to design, develop, and optimize high performance safety-critical systems.\nDevelop and adapt device drivers for hardware peripherals (e.g. GPIO, EtherCAT, SPI).\nBuild tools to monitor, verify and optimize real time system performance, ensuring deterministic behavior.\nContribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.\nCollaborate with functional safety engineers to ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support audit and traceability requirements.\nDevelop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.\nSolve complex, real-world challenges alongside a multi-disciplinary team\nQualifications\nMust-have:\nMS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.\nExperience with safety-certifiable RTOSes (e.g. PX5, ThreadX, SafeRTOS).\nExpertise in OS fundamentals, including real-time scheduling and memory management.\nStrong understanding of ARM 64 hardware architecture.\nExperience with multicore SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and atomic operations.\nProduction experience with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN)\nProficiency in low level programming (C, assembly)\nUnderstanding of bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers and board support packages (BSPs).\nHands-on experience with development tools including oscilloscopes, hardware debuggers and high speed tracing techniques (e.g. HSSTP).\nUnderstanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)\nFamiliarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts, MISRA compliance and related standards.\nSelf-starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.\nEnthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.\nNice-to-have:\nKnowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.\nProficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Rust, Golang).\nExperience with multi-language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).\nFamiliarity with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (Eg. 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