Staff Firmware Engineer, Sofar Ocean
Spotter
$160-190k
3-5 days a week in office
Ocean data monitoring
Be an early applicant
Ocean data monitoring
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-190k
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's oceans to the people who depend on them (all of us).
Role
Who you are
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Strong systems thinking ability
- Solid foundation of software architecture principles
- At least 5 years of professional embedded firmware/software experience
- Prior experience as a tech lead for a firmware team
- Fluent in embedded C and C++
- Comfortable in Python
- Experience with FreeRTOS
- Breadth of technology experience including multiple embedded platforms
- An understanding of common hardware peripherals and interfaces
Desirable
- Experience with multiple forms of radio telemetry
- Experience with IPv6 networking
- Experience with ARM Cortex-M0, M4, and M33 cores
- Past work in IoT, robotics, drones and/or automotive products
- A passion for or connection to the ocean
What the job involves
- You will be a key contributor to the embedded firmware design and implementation of all our hardware products: Spotter, Smart Mooring, next generation platforms and Sofar’s new open hardware connectivity stack — Bristlemouth
- You thrive in small and collaborative multidisciplinary teams, and are eager to pitch in to debug and solve gnarly issues
- You take pride in your craft. You strive to improve the health of our oceans and planet by shipping a cohesive, elegant and impactful product
- This role will be working onsite from our Pier 28 office at least 3 days per week and reporting to our Firmware Engineering Manager
- Design and implement efficient and maintainable FreeRTOS firmware with automated unit and integration tests in a mix of C and C++
- Break down complex efforts into parallelizable work streams for your team
- Implement host-side test, analysis and automation tools in Python
- Participate in code reviews, brainstorms and whiteboard sessions with your team
- Write crystal clear specifications and documentation for both external users and internal colleagues
- Work alongside electrical and mechanical engineers in designing, integrating, testing and debugging systems
- Advocating for the highest leverage features and fixes in product prioritization conversations
- Execute frequent releases for internal proprietary firmware as well as open source Bristlemouth firmware, following test plans, building installers, writing release notes, and announcing the releases in friendly and inviting communications for wide audiences
- Some projects you’ll be a part of:
- Building new Bristlemouth integrations for Spotter and Smart Mooring and evolving the open source Bristlemouth core APIs
- Collaborating cross-functionally to build new features on existing platforms
- Developing next generation platforms
- Advanced research and experiments with new and emerging technologies
- Integrated system testing, open ocean deployments, and the occasional throwing of things out of airplanes to see what breaks
Our take
Drastically changing weather and climate is one of the foremost issues of our time. And as we work to limit the impact of the climate crisis, we need trustworthy banks of data on how these changes have manifested, and what trajectory our world is on. This is where Solar Ocean comes in, with its global network of ocean-monitoring buoys.
It is the largest network of its kind, with thousands of solar-powered ‘spotters’ across the world’s oceans delivering over 200,000 updates every day. Its product is used primarily by climate scientists, but also has important applications in shipping, weather forecasting and maritime research as well.
Sofar is the largest network of its kind, and even though its spotters aren’t as sophisticated as similar government-funded ones, the sheer scale of its data collection makes its forecasts far more accurate. The funding it has raised is supporting the further extension of its network and development of its data services.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$39.4m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental plan
- Volunteering program
- Home office stipend
- Hybrid work schedule (for most roles)
- Flexible time off (including World Oceans Day!)
- A strong internal community of ocean-lovers!
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Evan Shapiro
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Co-founded Bad Rabbit Consulting, Spoondrift and Knit Health. At Knit Health they were also CTO, and at Spoondrift they worked as a Technical Architect.
Tim Janssen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Assistant Professor of Oceanography at San Francisco State University. They were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School, and also worked as an Independent Research Scientist and Principal Investigator.
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