Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Lateration GmbH; Erding; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lateration GmbH is seeking an embedded firmware engineer to own firmware for ARM-Cortex based systems. You will design, implement, and maintain firmware close to the metal, addressing real-time constraints and hardware interactions.

Responsibilities include bringing up boards, writing drivers, and ensuring clean hardware-software interfaces. You will work autonomously with a focus on robust, deterministic performance and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Solid experience in embedded C development on ARM-Cortex processors.
• Hands-on work with hardware-software interfaces and drivers.
• Familiarity with real-time constraints and interrupts.
• Ability to read datasheets and test firmware on real hardware.
• Nice to have: RTOS, bare-metal development, FPGAs and VHDL/Verilog.

Responsibilities

• Embedded Firmware Development: design, implement, and maintain firmware for ARM-Cortex based systems.
• Hardware-Software Interface: bring up new boards, write drivers, ensure clean interaction between firmware and hardware.
• Physics-Aware Engineering: consider thermal behavior, signal integrity, timing, and real-world noise.
• Independent Ownership: plan, prioritize, and execute work autonomously, drive topics from concept to working firmware.
• Team Collaboration: communicate openly, share knowledge, and contribute to a clarity-focused culture.
• Solution Focus: seek robust, maintainable solutions and resolve problems.

Skills

Embedded C

ARM-Cortex

Real-time systems

Hardware interfacing

Debugging tools

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic Analyzers

Job description

We support police and military forces in meeting the challenges of the 21st century. Our technologies are developed where others stop thinking further. Our engineers build technology to protect lives. To do so, they need focus, clarity, and speed. Your job is to protect the engineers and founders from chaos. You are part of the oil in the machine. You help ensure that the founders can focus on strategy and the engineers on building, while you take ownership of key operational details—supporting our internal knowledge base so the company runs with structure, transparency, and momentum.

Your Mission:

While others design the circuits, you make the silicon think. You own the embedded software that turns ARM-Cortex processors into reliable, real-world systems. You write the firmware that lives close to the metal, understands the physics of the hardware, and delivers clean, deterministic behavior under real operating conditions. Part low-level architect, part pragmatic problem-solver, part team player who prefers solutions over new problems. You don’t just write code — you take full ownership of the software foundation our products depend on.

Your Responsibilities:

• Embedded Firmware Development: You design, implement, and maintain firmware for ARM-Cortex based systems (Cortex-M, Cortex-A, or similar). You work close to the hardware — registers, peripherals, interrupts, timers, DMA, and real-time constraints.
• Hardware-Software Interface: You bring up new boards, write drivers, and ensure clean interaction between firmware and the underlying electronics. You understand what the signals on the scope actually mean.
• Physics-Aware Engineering: You treat physics as a first-class citizen. Thermal behavior, signal integrity, timing, power domains, and real-world noise are part of your daily thinking — not afterthoughts.
• Independent Ownership: You plan, prioritize, and execute your work autonomously. You identify risks early, propose solutions, and drive topics from concept to working, tested firmware.
• Team Collaboration: You communicate openly and honestly. You share knowledge, give and take feedback directly, and contribute to a culture that values clarity over politics.
• Solution Focus: You actively look for robust, maintainable solutions. When problems appear, you own them and resolve them instead of creating new ones.

Your first 5 months – What You’ll Be Proud to Have Achieved:

• You have familiarized yourself with the chip architecture and have developed the first rapid firmware solutions to test and validate key features.
• You have closed at least one complex hardware-software interaction issue by combining measurement, analysis, and pragmatic code changes.
• You have established or improved a practical development/test workflow that reduces friction for the team.

What you bring:

• Experience & Mindset: Solid experience in embedded C development on ARM-Cortex processors. You have already shipped firmware that runs in real products. A strong foundation in physics or the clear will to deepen that knowledge is essential.
• Ownership & Autonomy: You work self-directed and self-managing. You don’t wait to be told the next step — you see what needs doing and do it.
• Technical Depth: You are comfortable reading datasheets, debugging with oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, and writing efficient, reliable low-level code. Understanding of real-time systems, interrupts, and hardware constraints is natural for you.
• Team Culture Fit: You value open, honest communication and prefer solving problems over discussing them endlessly. You are solution-oriented by nature.
• Nice to have: Experience with RTOS, bare-metal development, FPGAs and VHDL/VERILOG or previous work in industrial or similarly demanding environments.

We are looking for someone who wants to build real systems — not just write code. If you enjoy the intersection of software, hardware, and physics, and if you prefer ownership and clear results over bureaucracy, we should talk.