Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

The role

You will own and evolve the device-side software and firmware stack for the LUMA vehicle inspection scanner. This involves controlling cameras and sensors, synchronizing capture, and building new measurement capabilities.

What you will do

• Architect embedded Linux software and firmware systems for the camera and sensor stack.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across embedded software, firmware, and electrical systems.
• Bring up custom camera and sensor subsystems end to end.
• Maintain and improve camera control software.
• Maintain and improve sensor control software.
• Build signal processing pipelines.
• Prototype fast, then harden to production-grade reliability.
• Support integration and deployments including lab validation and on-vehicle debugging.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of embedded engineering experience
• Technical leadership capabilities
• Production coding in C/C++ and/or Python
• Strong system design and software fundamentals (OOP, testing, reliability, version control)
• Embedded Linux expertise
• Hands-on hardware & sensor integration using UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO, RS-485, CAN, or Modbus
• Proficient with test equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters)
• Soldering, crimping/connectors, board bring-up
• Reasoning about board-level schematics/datasheets
• Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex)

About the company

Tractable is a leader in AI for auto repair and insurance. The Salt Lake City team designs, builds and supports the LumaScanner vehicle scanning system.