Panthalassa

Panthalassa

Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Portland, OR · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$290kDetected 16 days ago
RustC++Node.jsCode ReviewCI/CDLinuxEmbedded SystemsMedical DevicesCommunicationRenewable Energy

About the role

  • Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
  • The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices.
  • We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

  • Own the software for our in-house embedded products, and set technical direction on how it's implemented, reviewing designs and code across the team for correctness and reliability.
  • 10+ years developing production code, most of it in embedded systems.
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining embedded Linux distros with Yocto or Buildroot.
  • A track record of raising the technical bar on a team - as a lead, staff, or principal engineer.
  • Experience building an embedded systems and software from scratch at an early-stage hardware company.

Requirements

  • Track record owning the architecture and implementation of the code stack supporting a hardware product from bring-up through field deployment.
  • Experience designing for resource-constrained, real-time, power-constrained systems built to last years, not weeks.
  • Experience designing or hardening OTA update mechanisms for fielded devices.
  • Experience with embedded security - secure boot, encrypted comms, key management.

Nice to have

  • Deep experience with a systems programming language such as Rust or C/C++
  • deep experience with Rust, particularly no_std firmware, is a strong plus.

Compensation

  • Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • We're all owners and if we're successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
  • A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (the company pays 33% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
  • Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals - version control workflows, CI/CD pipeline design, automated/unit testing, and code coverage practices for embedded systems.
  • 5+ years with mission-critical or safety-critical systems (aerospace, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, industrial controls).

Company info

  • We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans.
  • About the Job
  • Our core technology is the Node, a device that produces energy in the ocean's harshest conditions for years without human maintenance or intervention.
  • The embedded software - device drivers, baremetal firmware, and embedded Linux - is what bridges the gap between hardware and the systems above it: giving the Node the ability to sense, actuate, follow commands from shore, and operate autonomously.
  • As Principal Embedded Software Engineer, you'll build the reliable, extensible, well-tested version of that software - the kind other engineers can build on top of without worrying about what's underneath.
  • You'll work elbow-to-elbow with electrical engineers from schematic capture through bring-up, and maintain the architecture and standards behind what the team delivers.
  • This job is multidisciplinary - some days you're probing signals on a bench, others you're deep in Rust, others you're reviewing a teammate's code or helping them through a tricky bring-up.
  • If you think in bits and bytes as naturally as you read schematics and datasheets, and you're happiest when you're close to the hardware, this role is built for you.
  • You'll be part of a small team that we expect to grow, and you'll have the opportunity to help shape and mentor it as it does.
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