Senior Embedded Systems Test Engineer, Flock
$170-190k
Offers equity
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Public safety operating system
Job no longer available
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$170-190k
Offers equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- If you're passionate about moving fast, solving tough challenges, and ensuring top-tier quality in a dynamic environment where you can bridge the gap between prototype and production, this is your opportunity to play a key role in our Device Software Quality efforts
- Have a Masters or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of experience in QA and test automation
- Have expertise developing and maintaining test automation for embedded systems
- Have experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing
- Are comfortable interacting with code in multiple languages to create, validate, and profile embedded devices
- Are comfortable working cross-functionally across multiple projects
- Have experience commercializing electronics in the consumer or industrial IoT space
- Are comfortable reading schematics and PCB layouts to inform test strategies and aid in debugging and have hands-on embedded electronics prototyping experience
- Have experience with test case management tools (e.g., TestRail, Zephyr) and bug tracking systems (e.g., Jira)
- Have a healthy skepticism of and trust-but-verify relationship with abstraction layers
- Possess effective verbal and written communication skills
- Have humility, curiosity, and a passion for sharing knowledge
What the job involves
- At Flock, we're looking for a Senior Embedded Systems Test Engineer to design, implement, and manage critical infrastructure that guarantees our devices are reliable, performant, and scalable
- You'll validate everything from low-level firmware to complex physical interactions
- You will design, implement, and manage the infrastructure that validates the software on our embedded products, from bare-metal firmware to interactions with the physical world
- This role will be a professional generalist who is able to walk the line between scrappy prototype and production polish
- Acting as a key contributor between embedded hardware, software, and program management
- With bare metal and RTOS code on MCUs
- Translating product goals into technical requirements
- Prototyping and triaging issues on embedded Android and MCU systems
- Interacting with a variety of programming and scripting languages (C, Python, SQL, Kotlin, Matlab, Java, Bash)
- With CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) for automated testing of physical hardware
- The First 30 Days
- Develop a comprehensive and thorough understanding of our device portfolio
- Begin contributing to a strategic plan for a unified, scalable test automation framework
- Contribute to the testing and bring-up of next generation products
- Identify opportunities for power savings on our existing devices
- The First 60 Days
- Help create performance profiling dashboards and reports, hardware design guides, application notes, and other relevant technical collaterals
- Prototype, evaluate, and profile new design approaches and system solutions
- Analyze and root cause embedded system and product issues in the Android, MCU code, and hardware domain
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Take ownership of key aspects of the end-to-end automated testing solution for next-generation products. Work with stakeholders in Hardware, Software, and Operations to define system quality requirements, testing procedures, and integration strategies
Application process
- Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are
- The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day
- The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more
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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