Hark
Embedded Software Engineer
San Jose · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$300kDetected 83 days ago
C++Machine LearningAgentic AIEmbedded Systems
About the role
- You'll work directly with the hardware team on new silicon and sensor integrations, with the agent team on model execution and memory constraints, and with products on experiences that ship to real users.
- The problems are real, the constraints are tight, and the work matters immediately.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain embedded firmware in C/C++ targeting ARM-based SoCs and microcontrollers
- Own BSP development, peripheral driver integration (SPI, I2C, UART, I2S), and RTOS task scheduling
- Optimize power consumption and thermal performance for always-on, battery-powered operation
- Build and maintain OTA update infrastructure for reliable field updates
- Collaborate with the on-device AI team to support model inference within memory and latency budgets
- Develop factory test and calibration firmware for manufacturing
- Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence.
- We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional firmware or embedded systems development
- Strong proficiency in C and/or C++ in resource-constrained environments
- Experience with ARM Cortex-M or Cortex-A processors and associated toolchains
- Hands-on experience with RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar)
- Familiarity with wireless protocols (BLE, Wi-Fi, or Thread)
- Comfort reading schematics and working alongside hardware engineers during board bring-up
- Experience with embedded debugging tools and workflows
Nice to have
- Experience with power optimization for battery-powered consumer devices
- Familiarity with secure boot, firmware signing, or hardware root of trust
- Exposure to ML inference runtimes on embedded platforms
- Experience shipping consumer electronics through EVT/DVT/PVT milestones
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $120,000 - $300,000 annually.
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Benefits
- One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
This listing is sourced directly from Hark's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.