Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Omen AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Free food & snacks

Daily in-office lunch provided

Job summary

Omen AI is building the diagnostic layer for the world's most critical infrastructure. Our embedded sensors deliver real-time data to prevent failures in industrial systems and datacenters, providing predictive insights.

As an Embedded Software Engineer at Omen AI, you will own the software stack on our sensors, develop drivers, and ensure reliability. You will collaborate with hardware, R&D, and software teams to evolve our next-generation platform and ensure robust data delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience developing embedded software for shipped hardware products or equivalent hands-on work.
• Strong C/C++ for resource-constrained, real-time systems.
• Strong Python for on-device Linux services, tooling and data analysis.
• Hands-on RTOS experience and embedded Linux.
• Experience writing peripheral drivers from datasheets and debugging with test equipment.
• Ability to communicate clearly across hardware and software teams with design docs.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design the embedded software system for current and next-gen Omen sensors.
• Define interfaces between firmware, on-device data processing, and cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain peripheral drivers (SPI, I2C, UART, ADCs, detectors, pumps, valves, high voltage).
• Write production C/C++ for real-time control and data acquisition.
• Bring up new hardware with the electrical team and debug at board level.
• Lead reliability analysis (FMEA), watchdog strategies, power-loss resilience.
• Build automated and HITL tests so releases are proven before customer sites.
• Investigate field failures to feed lessons back into design.
• Maintain a fail-safe OTA pipeline for a growing fleet of field devices.
• Set coding standards, review code, and guide embedded stack decisions.
• Bridge hardware and software teams and write clear design docs.

Skills

Embedded software development

C/C++

Python on-device Linux

RTOS

Embedded Linux

Peripheral drivers

Oscilloscopes/logic analyzers/JTAG-SWD

HW/SW collaboration

Tools

Yocto/Buildroot

U-Boot/MCUboot

OTA update systems

CI for firmware

HITL testing framework

Job description

Omen AI is building the diagnostic layer for the world's most critical infrastructure.

Omen is miniaturizing lab-grade monitoring into state-of-the-art, field-deployable embedded

sensors. Our systems deliver high detail analysis reports on the fluids in

industrial machines and datacenters, allowing us to detect complex wear trends

like hydraulic cylinder failures or coolant contamination in real-time. With this

data we can automatically match anomalies with failure modes weeks to months

before catastrophic failure occurs.

Our team is a tightly knit group of builders, dropouts, and industry veterans.

We don’t build things that are good enough, we build things that are 100x better.

Role Summary

As an Embedded Software Engineer at Omen, you will help plan and build the software that runs on our current and future products. You will be developing for our custom embedded sensors, implementing peripheral drivers, local data management, and connectivity to reliably get the data home. You'll also work closely with our hardware, R&D, and software teams in realizing our next generation of sensors, providing a technical voice in how our embedded platform evolves.

If you want to own a fascinating hardware problem from the ground up and build something that protects the most expensive infrastructure on the planet, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

Drive the Embedded Platform

• Plan and design the embedded software system for current and next-generation Omen sensors.
• Define interfaces between firmware, on-device data processing, and our cloud platform.

Build Drivers and Firmware

• Develop and maintain peripheral drivers (e.g. SPI, I2C, UART, ADCs, detector interfaces, pumps, valves, and high-voltage control).
• Write production C/C++ for real-time control and data acquisition.
• Bring up new hardware alongside the electrical team, debugging at the board level when needed.

Engineer for Reliability

• Lead reliability analysis for embedded systems: failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), watchdog and recovery strategies, and power-loss resilience.
• Build automated and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) tests so every release is proven before it reaches a customer site.
• Investigate field failures to root cause and feed the lessons back into design.
• Help maintain a fail-safe OTA pipeline for a growing fleet of field devices.

Provide Technical Direction

• Set coding standards, review code, and guide technical decisions across the embedded stack.
• Act as the bridge between hardware and software teams, translating constraints in both directions and writing clear design docs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience developing embedded software for shipped hardware products, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong proficiency with C and C++ for resource-constrained, real-time systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python for on-device Linux services, tooling, test automation, and data analysis.
• Hands-on experience with an RTOS and with embedded Linux.
• Experience writing peripheral drivers from datasheets, and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD.
• Proven ability to communicate clearly across hardware and software teams, including written design docs and technical reviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing technical direction or leading architecture on an embedded team.
• Embedded Linux build systems (Yocto or Buildroot) and bootloaders (U-Boot, MCUboot).
• Experience designing or maintaining OTA update systems for field devices.
• Embedded security: secure boot, signed firmware, and key management.
• Industrial or datacenter protocols and connectivity, such as Modbus, CAN, IO-Link, MQTT, or cellular.
• Firmware for scientific instruments, sensors, or high-speed data acquisition.
• Formal reliability methods and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure and CI for firmware.
• Prior early-stage startup experience.
• Pay: 160-190k base + equity
• Flexible PTO
• Free food & snacks
• Daily in-office lunch provided

Don’t meet every bullet but excited about what we’re doing? Apply anyway. Many excellent candidates don’t tick every box, and we are looking for team players with undeniable talent.