Embedded Software Manager, FarmWise
$210-260k
Innovative farming solutions
Job no longer available
Innovative farming solutions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$210-260k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To deliver affordable and reliable vision systems to power tomorrow's farm equipment with ultra precision.
Role
Who you are
- A Bachelor’s or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related fields
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with 7+ years experience leading and managing teams
- Strong experience in shipping high-quality commercial embedded or robotics software. High proficiency working with C or C++
- Experience using and augmenting automated test systems to verify software, with hardware in the loop
- Success directly coaching, mentoring, and leveling up engineers
- Experience building a team through development of hiring plans, recruiting, hiring decisions, and onboarding
- Experience maintaining a roadmap, estimating schedules, organizing plans, developing test and qualification test plans
Desirable
- Experience developing code for Jetson and STM32, proficient with Real Time Operating Systems
- Experience implementing and simulating controls and estimation algorithms for dynamic systems (PID, control loops, etc), state space, localization, robotic actuators, sensor fusion, etc
- Familiarity with ROS 1 or ROS 2 and basic working knowledge of Linear Algebra, Statistics, Kinematics
- Experience writing peripheral drivers, making operating system modifications, and writing software based on an electrical schematic or datasheet
- Experience with networking, concurrency, and distributed systems
What the job involves
- Be a strong communicator with a desire to work in a collaborative, people-first culture
- Lead the team on technical decisions, coach engineers on best practices for software engineering, and guide them on their career growth
- Architect critical embedded and robotic software systems and contribute to the end-to-end system architecture in collaboration with other teams
- Ensure good test coverage and make sure our releases are stable and hardened before deployment
- Review priorities and guide technical choices for their execution
- Hold a high bar for technical quality through code review and process, creating a maintainable code base over time
Our take
Autonomous robotic equipment presents great opportunities for efficiency in farming, but unfortunately it comes at a very high cost. Existing companies sell robotics directly to farms, but this is often unaffordable and requires advanced technical training that the average farmer is not qualified for.
FarmWise rent out robotic equipment to farms, and charge approximately $200 per acre of land worked upon. The company brings the equipment and sets it up to work automatically, preventing farmers from having to program the equipment themselves - smartly exploiting the gap in the market where farmers cannot afford such equipment, or lack the training to use it.
In this approach, FarmWise presents opportunities for all farms to benefit from the time and cost efficiency associated with autonomous robotic equipment, as opposed to this being exclusively accessible to corporate farms. The company is well-funded, and seems focussed on broadening its product capabilities towards serving more farmers across more sectors in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$45m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$14.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Flexible PTO & 8 company-wide holidays
- Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision), including FSA and HSA options
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sébastien Boyer
(Co-Founder & Chair of the Board)Co-Founder at The Marshmallow Project, Board member and CRO at Zeffy, Board member at PowerZ and Venture Partner at Basis Set.
Thomas Palomares
(CTO)Studied Management Science &and Engineering at Stanford, where they interned at TÜV Rheinland and IBM.
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