Embedded Software Engineer, Flock Safety
$130-160k
+ Offers Equity
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$130-160k
+ Offers Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Have hands-on experience developing software for embedded devices, especially autonomous systems like drones or robotics
- Experience with the Rust programming language for embedded systems
- Possess strong C/C++ development and debugging skills for embedded Linux environments
- Bring deep experience building and maintaining embedded Linux systems using the Yocto Project or similar build systems like Buildroot
- Have experience working with Qualcomm SoCs (System on a Chip) and their associated development toolchains
- Understand low-level concepts including bootloaders (like U-Boot), kernel configuration, and device drivers
- Have experience with platform architecture, design, and documentation
- Are skilled in Git/GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins
Desirable
- Linux kernel and device driver development experience
- Familiarity with AOSP
- Familiarity with hardware bring-up and board support packages (BSPs)
- Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
- Knowledge of networking protocols and services (TCP/IP, systemd, D-Bus)
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) on embedded devices
- Ability to write automation scripts (e.g., Python, Shell) to improve personal and team productivity
What the job involves
- Flock is looking to add an Embedded Software Engineer to our Platform Team. This isn't your typical desk job! You'll be writing the code that powers our custom-built embedded hardware and drones out in the real world
- Our Engineering team is made up of driven people who are responsible for the entire software stack on our devices. They enable our mission by building a stable, secure, and robust embedded Linux platform
- Take ownership of a core component or feature of our embedded platform and deliver it with high quality
- Be responsible for the QA and quality of your work, including on-device testing
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code for resource-constrained devices
- Document your work, system architecture, and test plans, and collaborate with hardware, backend, and QA teams
- Estimate work with reasonable accuracy and communicate adjustments as needed
- Assist in debugging and resolving complex hardware/software issues reported from the field
- Negotiate platform features and development schedules
- Identify and champion new technologies and best practices that will benefit Flock
- Identify and improve upon deficiencies in our platform, tools, and processes
- Mentor other engineers and share your expertise through tech talks
- The First 30 Days:
- Learn as much as possible about Flock's hardware, embedded platform, and system architecture
- Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering Team
- Understand Flock's product goals and hardware roadmap
- The First 60 Days:
- Contribute to our Yocto-based embedded Linux distribution
- Develop and test a new feature or driver for one of our devices
- Help improve the stability and performance of the core platform
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Become a key contributor to the embedded Linux platform and device software
- Be a key contributor in the development and bring-up of new hardware products
- Play a central role in shaping the architecture of our next-generation devices
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. It's caught on too, with a funding round of $275 million awarded in 2025 that will be used to expand its manufacturing capabilities. lock Safety, a U.S. startup developing surveillance technology, has raised $275 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it invests in a manufacturing facility and expands into drone products, the company told Reuters. funding behind it, This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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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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