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This includes developing drivers for high-speed sensors, BSP development and customization, kernel configuration and debugging, hardware bring-up, and performance tuning across the hardware/software boundary.\n\nHardware/Software Debugging: Use hardware abstraction tools and laboratory equipment to identify and resolve complex timing issues, race conditions, and hardware-software interface bugs.\n\nPower Optimization: Analyze and reduce power consumption for battery-operated devices, including on radio sleep states and sensor low-power modes.\n\nWhat we hope you'll bring:\n\nBS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.\n\nStrong software engineering and infrastructure skills, including building data pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and tools for rapid iteration.\n\nComfort working hands-on with hardware.\n\nStrong communication skills for collaborating with hardware, software, and research teams\n\nDemonstrated experience leading initiatives from concept to production on aggressive schedules, and turning ambiguous product goals into functional requirements\n\nExperience leading initial board bring-up and software design for first-of-their-kind embedded devices.\n\nHands-on experience with SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and the ability to debug complex hardware-software interactions.\n\nExperience architecting, implementing and debugging concurrent and multithreaded firmware services\n\nDeep understanding of modern operating systems, computer architecture, and trade-offs between compute, memory, and storage.\n\nExperience bringing up and integrating sensors on embedded systems; camera system bring-up, integration, and tuning is a plus.\n\nProficiency in C++\n\nFamiliarity with Bash scripting and Python for tooling and automation.\n\nBonus points if you have:\n\nNice to have: Direct experience with Linux Kernel development, including writing or debugging drivers, managing device trees, or optimizing kernel-space performance.\n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","company":"Physical Intelligence","rawCompany":"physical intelligence","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-14T07:58:37.209Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2061.00","title":"Computer Hardware Engineers","slug":"computer-hardware-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"},{"code":"334111","title":"Electronic Computer Manufacturing","slug":"electronic-computer-manufacturing"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Embedded Engineer","description":"Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. 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