Real-Time Embedded Engineer for Robotic Platforms

Gram Games; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

GRAM is seeking an embedded firmware engineer to own from microcontrollers to the Linux robot runtime. You will bring up electronics, develop drivers, diagnostics, and deterministic communications to enable autonomous operation.

Responsibilities include building boot paths, update mechanisms, and fault response, plus hardware-software integration across sensors, actuators, and compute. On-site role focused on hardware-centric development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Shipped C/C++ software on a custom electromechanical product using RTOS/embedded Linux, with hardware bring-up or field failure resolution.
• Implemented and debugged device drivers, interrupts, DMA, concurrency, memory ownership, and physical interfaces such as CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, or UART.
• Demonstrated real-time systems work with measured latency, jitter, bandwidth, CPU or memory use, and overload scenarios.
• Closed hardware-software defects with instrumentation and added automated tests or fault responses.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement C and C++ firmware, device drivers, hardware abstraction, real-time services, communication protocols, and robot-runtime components.
• Define timing, bandwidth, lifecycle, state-machine, calibration, diagnostic, and fault-response contracts across sensors, actuators, power electronics, compute, and autonomy.
• Bring up new boards and embedded compute using debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, bus analyzers, kernel traces, and telemetry.
• Build boot, provisioning, parameter, configuration, software-update, rollback, and recovery paths with explicit failure behavior and version compatibility.
• Develop simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, fault-injection, and regression tests that run automatically and gate releases.
• Measure and improve latency, jitter, resource use, startup time, communication reliability, logging, and recovery under load.
• Investigate integrated-machine failures across firmware, Linux, networking, electronics, controls, and autonomy, then carry corrections through reproducible tests.

Skills

C/C++ firmware

Real-time systems

Embedded Linux / RTOS

Device drivers

Diagnostics & fault response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Tools

Debuggers

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Bus analyzers

Kernel traces

Telemetry tooling

Job description

GRAM is seeking an embedded firmware engineer to own from microcontrollers to the Linux robot runtime. You will bring up electronics, develop drivers, diagnostics, and deterministic communications to enable autonomous operation.

Responsibilities include building boot paths, update mechanisms, and fault response, plus hardware-software integration across sensors, actuators, and compute. On-site role focused on hardware-centric development.