Senior Embedded Systems Engineer — Edge AI & Hardware Lead

Tractable; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tractable in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to own and evolve the edge software and firmware stack for the LUMA scanner, controlling cameras and sensors and enabling real-time measurements.

You will set technical direction, mentor teammates, and move features from rapid prototype to production-grade reliability on real vehicles, bridging embedded software, hardware, and vision data.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of embedded engineering experience with production-grade systems.
• Technical leadership including mentoring engineers and architecture decisions.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and/or Python with solid software fundamentals (OOP, testing, reliability).
• Embedded Linux expertise including services, supervision, logging, and profiling.
• Hands-on hardware & sensor integration using UART, I2C, SPI and RS-485/CAN/Modbus.
• Lab bring-up skills: testing equipment, soldering, board bring-up, schematics/datasheets.

Responsibilities

• Architect embedded Linux software and firmware for camera/sensor stack.
• Provide technical leadership across embedded software, firmware, and electrical systems; mentor engineers.
• Bring up custom camera and sensor subsystems end to end.
• Maintain and improve camera control software: triggering, timing, health monitoring, error recovery.
• Maintain and improve sensor control software: presence/distance/measurement sensors, calibration, fault handling.
• Build signal processing pipelines: 2D maps, stereo depth, denoising, transforms.
• Prototype fast, then harden to production-grade reliability.
• Support integration and deployments: lab and on-vehicle validation, fixes.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

Python

Linux

Hardware integration

Mentorship

System architecture

AI coding tools

Job description

Tractable in Salt Lake City is seeking a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to own and evolve the edge software and firmware stack for the LUMA scanner, controlling cameras and sensors and enabling real-time measurements.

You will set technical direction, mentor teammates, and move features from rapid prototype to production-grade reliability on real vehicles, bridging embedded software, hardware, and vision data.