Embedded Software Engineer - Platform

Paradigm Robotics is an Austin, Texas based robotics startup building rugged, scalable robots for situational awareness in hazardous environments. We serve firefighting, emergency response, public safety, oil & gas, defense, and industrial markets. Our mission is to create a new paradigm of scalable, reliable, and useful robots for real-world hazardous operations providing critical solutions to the most dangerous problems out there.

We've raised an oversubscribed round from top-tier venture firms. We’re working directly with over 80 of the largest fire departments, law enforcement agencies, industrial teams, and military units across the U.S., including the Air Force, Army, and SERDP. Our robots are built with and for firefighters, first responders, warfighters, and emergency crews.

• Understand system requirements, negotiating against unnecessary ones and translating the ones that remain into final solutions
• Work with team and users to design hyper-critical features from the ground up including high-level architecture and workflows
• Prototype, validate, and refine end-to-end features; from sensor integration to networking to basic computer vision
• Develop barebones frontends to demonstrate and simulate feature utility
• Test features in both lab and simulated environments to ensure reliability and make functional improvements
• Optimize features for network communications in even low bandwidth environments
• Optimize features for hardware when necessary be it in compute, data transfer, or memory
• Debug complex issues after testing or operation, including those in processing and threading
• Collaborate with hardware system owners for integration and issue-resolution.
• Write essential documentation to communicate design intent, intended framework/SDK use, and post-test recommendations.
• Make your code readable and useable, but not necessarily a work of art.
• Stay up to date on users, best practices, and emerging tech
• Communicate directly with users as necessary to determine engineering direction for specific features

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science or an engineering discipline
• 1-3+ years of experience developing with hardware, preferably in industry
• Fluent in C/C++, and some fluency in Python or another scripting language
• Some familiarity, even if limited, with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Base understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns
• Experience with Linux
• Understanding of communication buses and protocols (CAN, USB, I2C, Ethernet, etc.)
• Comfortable using lab instruments (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
• Some familiarity, even if very limited, of ROS 1/2
• Developed projects beyond the scripting phase, preferably into some form of production/release

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computational Engineering, or some other engineering
• 5+ years software experience with preferably robotic systems
• Worked at a high-growth startup
• Fluent in C/C++, Python, and some frontend development language (JS or some framework, HTML, CSS)
• Previously worked with ROS 1/2
• Deep understanding of Linux
• Experience implementing real-time software
• Good knowledge of computer architecture
• Deep understanding of communication buses and protocols (CAN, USB, I2C, Ethernet, etc.)
• Comfortable using lab instruments (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
• Experience in networking and wireless communications
• Experience implementing CI/CD infrastructures
• Familiar with Agile and Test driven development
• Strong entrepreneurial track record being an engineer, founder, or operator at a 0 to 1 startup; able and prepared to support scaling across all aspects of engineering, operations, and business

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Willing to work long hours, especially when necessary for critical milestones
• Hands-on in design, coding, testing, and in-field deployments
• Eager to implement best practices, and fast to communicate needs and desired process changes
• Willing to provide feedback to management and team early and often