Flock Safety · 3 days ago
Firmware Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
$125K/yr - $175K/yr
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Responsibilities
Develop high-quality MCU firmware and Kernel drivers for existing and next-generation platforms.
Work with key internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure deliverables meet our development and design bar.
Develop customizations in the drivers.
Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver quality software and firmware.
Learn about the firmware software development lifecycle and tools, get your development environment set up, and your build server up and running.
Learn about different MCU-based and Android-based devices that our team is working on.
Gradually ramp up on each product, deliver a small bug fix or an improvement in the code base.
Continue making improvements to device firmware.
Familiarize yourself with firmware-common library, and how it is integrated into existing projects and it’s current roadmap.
Make valuable contributions to our firmware-common library, help with its integration into our MCU-based products, identify gaps and needs in the library and collaborate with partners to establish its roadmap.
Deliver larger-scope fixes and improvements for MCU-based devices and on the Android host side.
Qualification
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Required
A Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Proven track record of working with a large fleet of connected devices, a good understanding of different phases of their lifecycle and related challenges
Development experience within embedded systems/firmware design at multiple stages of the product life cycle (prototyping, pre-production engineering validation, release and scaling)
Experience with MCU firmware development bare-metal and RTOS-based
Experience with device bring-up within MCU bare metal, RTOS, Linux or Android ecosystems
Experience with Android system architecture (HAL, Android Linux Kernel, Android Build System, etc)
Proficient in C and C++
Comfortable working in a Linux-based development environment, including custom tooling, containers, Gerrit/Git, etc
Preferred
Experience with ARM Cortex Microcontrollers and more specifically, with ST MCU and their development ecosystem is a big plus
Experience with FreeRTOS or Zephyr is a plus
Experience with Qualcomm chipset devices is a plus
Experience with battery-powered/power constrained devices is a plus
Strong knowledge of Linux internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, memory allocation, file system, networking, storage, subsystem architecture)
Experience bringing up Linux Kernel drivers for common peripheral bus technologies, including SPI, I2C, UART, is a big plus
Experience with Kotlin and Android apps development
Benefits
Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility.
Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.
Company
Flock Safety
Flock Safety provides a full-service tech solution that helps communities prevent crime, shaping a safer future together.
Founded in 2017
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2022 (1)
2021 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$380.58MKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementAndreessen HorowitzMeritech Capital Partners
2022-02-15Series E· $150M
2021-07-13Series D· $150M
2020-11-02Series C· $45M
Leadership Team
Mandy Schuler
Vice President Supply Chain
Paige Todd
VP of People Operations
Recent News
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