What You'll Do:
The Lead Engineer drives embedded development of advanced motor control and robotic subsystems for Whisker's next-generation smart pet products. Operating at the front end of innovation, this role focuses on designing, prototyping and productization of high-performance electromechanical systems.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as deemed necessary.
- Architects and implements technical solutions on embedded systems to support IoT smart pet products
- Works closely with AWS cloud engineering team on solutions for data management
- Manages code release process for embedded team
- Conducts code reviews across multiple teams
- Conducts integration and system-level testing
- Programs, solves, and debugs with detailed knowledge in machine control and multi-threaded / multi-core programming environments, software applications, and device layering programs
- Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development issues
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
- Stays up to date with state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations
- Will perform additional responsibilities when required
Requirements
What You'll Bring:
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience with low-level firmware development for embedded systems.
- In-depth understanding of embedded firmware design principles, patterns and best practices.
- Expertise in C and C++ for firmware development.
- Solid understanding of:
- C/C++, Bare Metal, FreeRTOS (or similar)
- Microcontroller and sensor HW selection
- Low-level and device driver development
- PWM, UART, I2C, SPI, SDIO, MIPI, USB, BLE, and WiFi
- AWS IoT Device SDK (or similar) and MQTT protocol
- Experience with the following:
- Embedded Linux (Yocto or similar)
- System integration with electronic subsystems and sensors
- Test Driven Development methodology
- Version control tools such as Github, etc.
- Power supplies, meters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.
- ST and Espressif MCUs and their respective development ecosystems
- Supporting medium to large-scale IoT product deployments, including secure and reliable firmware OTA updates.
- Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information.
- Applied knowledge of control theory, including PID loop tuning, motor control (stepper/BLDC), and closed-loop systems
- Experience with rapid prototyping platforms, SBCs, and robotics systems (e.g., Arduino, Raspberry Pi, VEX)
- Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions.
- A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with colleagues
- Comfortable with office pets (cats, dogs)
Not Required but Nice to Have! - Experience with Bootloader development
- Basic understanding of mechanical systems
- Experience conceptualizing, developing, and deploying Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV) models from scratch
- Proficiency in Python and standard Data Science methodologies
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and CV platforms (e.g., TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, YOLO, and Roboflow)
Benefits & Purrks:Join a tenacious, inventive company that empowers team members to chart their own path, lead by grounding decisions in the "why", and has a strong sense of empathy and openness to new perspectives. Be a part of exciting growth, work with incredible people, and create tomorrow's pet products-plus a whole lot of extras. You will also be provided with:
- Premium Medical/Dental/Vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Whisker Parents Program
- 1 day "pawternity" leave for new pet adoption
- Pet Insurance Discount
- 401K match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Company-paid short-term disability and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Generous paid time off
- 14 Paid Holidays
- Top of the line equipment
- Pet-friendly office
- Whisker products and swag
- Continuing education Support
- On-site gym with Peloton
- Referral program
