Senior Kernel Engineer, Flock
$172-190k
Offers Equity
Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$172-190k
Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Mastery of C development and Linux kernel internals, including memory management, power management, IRQ handling, and subsystem architecture
- Hands-on experience with Qualcomm chipset bring-up, devicetrees, and Android system architecture spanning HAL and the Linux kernel
- Proficiency in bootloader development and customization, including familiarity with XBL and ABL concepts
- Experience developing or debugging firmware for Application Digital Signal Processors within embedded hardware environments
- A bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related technical field is required
- Experience with Linux kernel drivers for SPI/I2C/UART, Rust/C++, or Qualcomm proprietary subsystems is a plus
What the job involves
- As Flock expands our next-generation hardware fleet across demanding outdoor environments, ensuring absolute operating system stability is critical to our camera networks
- Deploying high-performance devices requires robust low-level chipset bring-up, custom bootloaders, and resilient kernel architectures
- You will engineer low-level Qualcomm Android BSP solutions, optimize system performance, and build the foundational operating system powering our edge hardware
- Lead low-level Qualcomm Android BSP bring-up, devicetree modifications, and pSIM framework integrations across next-generation camera platforms
- Architect and customize low-level bootloaders, including XBL and ABL implementations, to optimize device boot security and efficiency
- Develop and debug firmware for Application Digital Signal Processors, aligning ADSP architecture with system processing requirements
- Partner with electrical engineering and validation teams to define low-level hardware integration, build custom debug hooks, and expand automated testing
- Analyze system tombstones, kernel logs, and performance traces to eliminate hardware-software latency and memory bottlenecks
- This isn't a high-level Android application or UI development role, you will focus entirely on low-level kernel space, bootloaders, HALs, and BSP bring-up
- This is not a purely theoretical design role, you will directly debug physical devices, run CI builds, and deploy stable operating system builds directly to hardware
- This isn't a isolated engineering position, you will collaborate constantly across electrical engineering, validation, and cloud teams to align hardware and software behavior
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. The company has raised strong funding to support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. But it has also faced a large dose of backlash from groups and individuals who are concerned about its capability for mass surveillance and the privacy of the data it collects.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Garrett Langley
(Founder & CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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