Senior Embedded Software Engineer

The role

You will develop C++ software to control acquisition, configure peripherals, and manage recording sessions for a wearable brain-computer interface. You will design the path from raw sensor frames to a timestamped network stream and evolve a Yocto-based Linux platform.

What you will do

• Develop C++ software that controls acquisition, configures peripherals, runs self-tests, and manages recording sessions.
• Design and optimize the path from raw sensor frames through on-device signal processing to a timestamped network stream.
• Evolve the Yocto-based Linux platform, including application integration, system configuration, and reproducible builds.
• Solve timing, concurrency, memory, and throughput challenges across a high-performance wearable.
• Collaborate with hardware and FPGA engineers to bring new sensing capabilities to life.
• Build automated tests, performance measurements, and development tools.

Required qualifications

• Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant professional experience.
• Experienced in modern C++ for embedded systems, including resource management, concurrency, and debugging.
• Comfortable developing on embedded Linux, with practical experience using Yocto.
• Familiar with networked services or messaging protocols such as gRPC, MQTT, DDS, or ZeroMQ, and approaches to moving structured data between systems.
• Comfortable reasoning across software and hardware boundaries and using measurements to explore design choices.

Nice to have

• Experience with Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL and FPGA-based acquisition.
• Know ARM-based systems, AMD/Xilinx Zynq platforms, or AMD's Embedded Development Framework (EDF), with experience in board support packages (BSPs), device trees, or U-Boot.
• Worked on timing, clock synchronization, digital signal processing (DSP), or high-throughput data acquisition (DAQ).
• Related real-time operating system (RTOS) experience with FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
• Developed Linux kernel device drivers or worked with DMA, SPI, I2C, or other hardware interfaces.
• Experience with scientific instruments, optical sensing, robotics, or other precision measurement systems.
• Used CMake, GoogleTest, Catch2, or hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
• Additional embedded Linux experience with Buildroot, OpenEmbedded, cross-compilation, or debugging with GDB and JTAG.

About the company

Orbit is a team of engineers, neuroscientists, and designers working to deepen understanding of the human brain by building a wearable brain-computer interface and models that decode emotion.