Firmware Engineer, Flock Safety
$140-160k
Offers equity
More information about location
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$140-160k
Offers equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 8+ years experience
- Proven track record of working with a large fleet of connected devices, a good understanding of different phases of their lifecycle and related challenges
- Development experience within embedded systems/firmware design at multiple stages of the product life cycle (prototyping, pre-production engineering validation, release and scaling)
- Experience with MCU firmware development bare-metal and RTOS-based
- Experience with device bring-up within MCU bare metal, RTOS, Linux
- Experience with Android system architecture (HAL, Android Linux Kernel, Android Build System, etc)
- Exposure to developing, testing, and troubleshooting systems using the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol
- Proficient in C and C++
- Comfortable working in a Linux-based development environment, including custom tooling, containers, Gerrit/Git, etc
- Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay, we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day
Desirable
- Experience with ARM Cortex Microcontrollers and more specifically, with ST MCU and their development ecosystem is a big plus
- Experience with FreeRTOS or Zephyr is a plus
- Experience with Qualcomm chipset devices is a plus
- Experience with battery-powered/power constrained devices is a plus
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, memory allocation, file system, networking, storage, subsystem architecture)
- Experience developing Linux Kernel drivers for common peripheral bus technologies, including SPI, I2C, UART, is a big plus
- Experience with Kotlin and Android apps development is a plus
What the job involves
- Flock Safety is looking for a Firmware Engineer to join our Device Firmware Team, a dynamic group renowned for its exceptional engineering talent
- We are responsible for all of the code running on thousands of solar-powered devices that are at the heart of our mission, enabling the seamless capture and upload of millions of images and streaming video content to the cloud daily
- This role will focus on developing high-quality MCU firmware for existing and next-generation platforms
- You will work with key internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure deliverables meet our development and design bar, develop customizations in the drivers, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver quality software and firmware
- We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90-day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Firmware Engineer at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Learn about the firmware software development lifecycle and tools, get your development environment set up, and your build server up and running
- Learn about different MCU-based and Android-based devices that our team is working on
- Gradually ramp up on each product, deliver a small bug fix or an improvement in the code base
- The First 60 Days
- Continue making improvements to device firmware
- Familiarize yourself with firmware-common library, and how it is integrated into existing projects and it’s current roadmap
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Make valuable contributions to our firmware-common library, help with its integration into our MCU-based products, identify gaps and needs in the library and collaborate with partners to establish its roadmap
- Deliver larger-scope fixes and improvements for MCU-based devices and on the Android host side
Application process
- We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative
- Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way
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 Safety 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 Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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
(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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