Security-Focused Edge OS & Firmware Engineer

Swoop Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Sur place; USD 130 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Swoop Technologies in Washington, DC — or Minneapolis — is seeking an experienced embedded systems engineer to develop and maintain OS-critical firmware and kernel modules. You will craft bootloaders, device drivers, and services, enabling robust initialization and hardware interaction.

You will collaborate across teams to debug complex issues spanning firmware, OS, and application layers, and you may travel up to 20% to meet customer requirements and deployment needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience
• 4+ years of experience in Operating System/Kernel development, RTOS, Embedded Systems/Firmware design, Microkernel development, Bare Metal development
• Software development experience in C and Rust
• Understanding of low level hardware systems
• Travel Requirement - 5-20%
• Active US Security clearance or ability and willingness to be sponsored for a US Security clearance

Responsabilités

• Develop and maintain embedded system firmware including low-level drivers, bootloaders, and other OS-critical functions to enable reliable OS initialization and hardware interaction
• Contribute to OS integration and kernel-level modules, ensuring efficient communication between hardware abstraction layers and higher-level system software
• Design and implement application-layer features and system services that leverage firmware interfaces, optimizing for performance, resource use, and robustness
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering teams to debug complex issues spanning firmware, operating system, and application boundaries
• Collaborate closely with the deployment engineering team, solving technical challenges for various customer requirements

Connaissances

C programming

Rust programming

Low-level hardware understanding

Travel willingness

US security clearance eligible

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Outils

Embedded systems

RTOS

Bare metal development

Device drivers

Description du poste

Swoop Technologies in Washington, DC — or Minneapolis — is seeking an experienced embedded systems engineer to develop and maintain OS-critical firmware and kernel modules. You will craft bootloaders, device drivers, and services, enabling robust initialization and hardware interaction.

You will collaborate across teams to debug complex issues spanning firmware, OS, and application layers, and you may travel up to 20% to meet customer requirements and deployment needs.