Embedded Systems & Backend Engineer

SF Bay Area California Fully On-site

We are seeking an Embedded Systems & Backend Engineer to work at the intersection of wearable hardware firmware cloud systems and real-time AI infrastructure.

This role sits closest to the physical device and requires genuine firmware experience combined with strong systems and backend engineering capabilities.

• Work directly with wearable-device firmware and hardware platforms.
• Flash configure adapt and integrate vendor firmware and device software.
• Work with embedded Linux RTOS environments and/or device SDKs.
• Evaluate camera sensor compute battery thermal and latency requirements.
• Contribute to hardware specifications and technical discussions with external manufacturing partners.
• Develop backend infrastructure supporting real-time multimodal data pipelines.
• Work close to the system layer using technologies such as C C or Rust where appropriate.
• Own components across device backend and cloud infrastructure.

• Approximately 1 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience with flexibility for exceptional candidates.
• Hands-on firmware or embedded systems experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux RTOS device SDKs or comparable low-level systems.
• Strong backend or systems engineering fundamentals.
• Comfort working close to hardware and debugging across software and device boundaries.
• Experience shipping production systems in fast-moving engineering environments.

Relevant backgrounds include robotics drones autonomous vehicles wearables industrial devices defense technology embedded systems and other hardware-constrained environments.

The role is fully in person in the San Francisco Bay Area initially in Burlingame and later in San Francisco.

Candidates must be able to work in the United States. Certain visa sponsorship and transfer scenarios are available for candidates already in the United States. New petitions processed from abroad are not currently supported.