Embedded Systems Engineer: Rust/C++ for Controllers

Neuron Industries (YC S26); Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Neuron Industries (YC S26) seeks a capable engineer to build the Cortex runtime and low-level controller software. You will work on embedded Linux services, hardware interfaces, and performance with memory, concurrency, and timing in mind.

You will collaborate with founders, electrical engineers, and application teams, owning implementation, testing, and debugging to deliver reliable field-ready software.

Qualifications

• Strong systems programming fundamentals, demonstrated in Rust, C, C++, or another relevant language.
• You understand memory, concurrency, timing, and hardware interfaces and can measure and improve behavior.
• Practical Linux experience and ability to isolate failures across processes, device interfaces, and hardware boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level software for the Cortex runtime and services that execute controller applications.
• Integrate industrial I/O, peripherals, and device communication with engineers.
• Build embedded Linux services and reliable interfaces between applications, runtime, and hardware.
• Debug issues across software and hardware using traces, profiling, logs, and bench measurements.
• Improve latency, resource use, concurrency, and recovery behavior through measurement and targeted changes.
• Validate functionality and failure handling with automated tests, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and reproducible fault cases.
• Ship controller updates and diagnostics that enable deployment and field troubleshooting.

Skills

Systems programming

Rust

C/C++

Concurrency

Embedded Linux

Memory management

Tools

Profiling tools

Tracing & logs

Job description

Neuron Industries (YC S26) seeks a capable engineer to build the Cortex runtime and low-level controller software. You will work on embedded Linux services, hardware interfaces, and performance with memory, concurrency, and timing in mind.

You will collaborate with founders, electrical engineers, and application teams, owning implementation, testing, and debugging to deliver reliable field-ready software.