Embedded Systems Engineer

Tractable; Utah; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

dental

health

vision insurance

paid parental leave

paid time off

stock options

Job summary

LUMA is seeking an Embedded Systems Engineer to join the Salt Lake City team, focusing on camera control and sensor processing for a drive-through vehicle inspection scanner.

You will work at the intersection of software and hardware, developing robust embedded systems and data pipelines, with hands-on wiring, testing, and field deployments on vehicles.

Qualifications

• We look for strong software engineering fundamentals including debugging, testing, reliability and version control.
• We expect experience integrating sensors and devices in real world systems.
• We value comfort working close to hardware with bring-up and troubleshooting.
• We need the ability to deliver maintainable systems from ambiguous requirements.
• We prefer embedded or edge platforms such as Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino or similar.
• We prefer familiarity with RS-485, CAN, Modbus, UART, I2C, SPI and GPIO.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve camera control software with triggering, timing, health monitoring and error recovery.
• Maintain and enhance sensor control software including calibration and fault handling.
• Develop new scanner capabilities.
• Build signal processing pipelines converting laser outputs to 2D depth maps and post-process stereo results.
• Prototype quickly and harden solutions into production-grade implementations.
• Support system integration and deployments by bringing up new modules in the lab and in vehicle.

Skills

Debugging

Testing

Reliability

Version control

Sensor integration

Embedded systems

Raspberry Pi

NVIDIA Jetson

Arduino

Linux

Python

C/C++

Rust

Go

Camera control

Image pipelines

ROS

IoT platforms

Education

Bachelors degree in a relevant field

Tools

Docker

Git

Redis

AWS IoT

Job description

Requirements

Must have:

• We look for strong software engineering fundamentals, including debugging, testing, reliability, and version control.
• We expect experience integrating sensors and devices in real-world systems.
• We value comfort working close to hardware, including bring-up, wiring, and iterative troubleshooting.
• We need the ability to take ambiguous requirements and deliver maintainable systems.
• We prefer experience with embedded or edge platforms such as Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino, or similar.
• We prefer familiarity with industrial and hardware interfaces such as RS-485, CAN, Modbus, UART, I2C, SPI, and GPIO.
• We prefer Linux-based device development experience, including system services, supervision, logging, and performance profiling.
• We prefer experience with container-based application development using Docker or similar runtimes.
• We prefer experience in sensor and vision data processing, including filtering, calibration, synchronization, and map generation.
• We value hands-on electronics skills, including safely and neatly connecting sensors to compute hardware.
• We prefer comfort with basic soldering, crimping, connector work, and reading datasheets and wiring diagrams.
• We prefer computer vision or depth-sensing experience such as stereo, structured light, LiDAR, or triangulation.
• We prefer experience with multi-device synchronization, including timestamps, trigger distribution, and drift management.
• We prefer familiarity with queue-based job management such as Redis worker queues.
• We prefer production deployment experience, including monitoring, remote updates, and failure analysis.
• We prefer proficiency with Python and C/C++, with Rust or Go as additional strengths.
• We prefer familiarity with camera control APIs and image capture pipelines.
• We prefer exposure to IoT fleet management platforms such as AWS IoT or Balena Cloud.

Responsibilities:

• We will rely on you to maintain and improve our camera control software, including triggering, timing, health monitoring, and error recovery.
• We will rely on you to maintain and enhance our sensor control software, covering presence, distance, and measurement sensors, calibration, and fault handling.
• You will develop new scanner capabilities.
• You will build signal processing pipelines, such as converting laser triangulation outputs into 2D tread-depth maps, post-processing stereo depth results, filtering and denoising data, and performing coordinate transforms.
• You will prototype quickly and then harden solutions into production-grade implementations.
• You will support system integration and deployments by bringing up new modules, validating them in the lab and on vehicle, debugging issues, and shipping fixes.

Company:

We are building LUMA, a drive-through vehicle inspection scanner that uses multi-camera capture, active illumination, and multiple sensor modalities to produce high-fidelity vehicle imagery and measurements. This Embedded Systems Engineer role sits at the intersection of embedded software, hardware integration, and sensor and vision data processing. The position is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with in-person work required.

We offer a compensation range of $120,000 to $150,000 per year, along with benefits including.

• 401(k)
• dental
• health
• vision insurance
• paid parental leave
• paid time off
• stock options