Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
4+ years in Operating System/Kernel development, RTOS, or Firmware design
Proficient in C and Rust programming languages
Knowledge of low-level hardware systems
Willingness to travel 5-20%
Active US Security clearance or willingness to obtain one
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain embedded system firmware and low-level drivers
Integrate OS and kernel-level modules for efficient hardware interactions
Design application-layer features to optimize performance
Collaborate with engineering teams to debug firmware and OS issues
Work with deployment teams to address technical customer requirements
Benefits
Work on cutting-edge technology with significant real-world impact
Collaborate with a talented team in a dynamic work environment
Opportunity to influence advancements in AI, robotics, and systems engineering
Engagement with critical infrastructure projects
Office locations in Minneapolis and Washington, DC
Full Job Description
This is a hybrid position that requires someone based in Minneapolis/St. Paul OR Washington, DC who can work in-office 3+ days per week
Impact:
Joining our Edge Team means you will get to work on building an operating system. Not an abstraction, virtualization, or data layer. A legitimate distributed operating system. This OS has to work across heterogeneous instruction sets, support a new generation of distributed system abstractions, treat security as a first principle, and work at the scale of power grids and entire militaries. You will influence the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world - building a compute model the OS schedules and executes across the most geopolitically relevant problem sets. It is a bad-ass problem where every member of the team contributes tangibly on a daily basis. Come join us in either our Minneapolis or Washington, DC offices.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain embedded system firmware including low-level drivers, bootloaders, and other OS-critical functions to enable reliable OS initialization and hardware interaction.
Contribute to OS integration and kernel-level modules, ensuring efficient communication between hardware abstraction layers and higher-level system software.
Design and implement application-layer features and system services that leverage firmware interfaces, optimizing for performance, resource use, and robustness.
Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to debug complex issues spanning firmware, operating system, and application boundaries.
Collaborate closely with the deployment engineering team, solving technical challenges for various customer requirements
You Should Have:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
4+ years of experience in one or more of the following: Operating System/Kernel development, RTOS, Embedded Systems/Firmware design, Microkernel development, Bare Metal development
Software development experience in C and Rust
Understanding of low level hardware systems
Travel Requirement - 5-20%
Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance
Bonus if you have:
Knowledge of one or more of the following: Microcontrollers, SoC, device drivers, hardware bring-up, power management, ARM processors, performance optimization, file systems, bootloading, firmware, x86 assembly, system BIOS, FPGAs or hardware/software integration
Understanding of clocks and timing as it pertains to processor instructions
Familiarity with serial protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB
Demonstrated knowledge of systems engineering and distributed systems
