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Embedded Software Engineer

Emergent Software16 open roles

Pay
$150,000 – $190,000 a year
Where
Carlsbad, California, United States
Work mode
On site
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Early applications get read.

13.4% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Emergent Software postings stay open a median of 21 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.6%3 days
  3. 13.4%7 days
  4. 21.6%14 days
  5. 36.2%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
This job: first seen 61 days ago

Emergent Software median: 21 days open

The posting

**This is a direct hire for one of our clients working on site out of the Carlsbad, CA offices. Eligible candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without visa or sponsorship.**

Our client is seeking an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and support embedded software for complex hardware systems. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong firmware and hardware integration experience who has worked with either high-voltage or low-voltage systems. You'll work closely with electrical, systems, and software engineering teams to develop reliable, production-quality embedded solutions from initial architecture through hardware bring-up, testing, validation, and deployment.

We're especially interested in engineers who are actively incorporating AI-assisted development or agentic AI workflows into how they build, test, debug, document, or maintain software.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, debug, test, and validate embedded software and firmware
  • Develop software for high-voltage and/or low-voltage electronic systems
  • Translate system and hardware requirements into scalable software architectures
  • Develop embedded drivers using hardware schematics and component datasheets
  • Support board bring-up, hardware integration, testing, and troubleshooting
  • Work with microcontrollers, processors, sensors, communication interfaces, and other embedded hardware
  • Collaborate closely with electrical, systems, mechanical, and software engineering teams
  • Apply AI-assisted and agentic development tools to improve software development, testing, debugging, and engineering workflows
  • Participate in code, software design, architecture, and schematic reviews
  • Develop and maintain reliable, testable, and maintainable production software
  • Troubleshoot complex hardware/software integration issues
  • Contribute to technical direction, architecture decisions, and engineering best practices
  • Mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership as the team grows

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of embedded software or firmware development experience
  • Strong C programming skills with working knowledge of C++
  • Experience developing software for high-voltage and/or low-voltage embedded systems
  • Experience with bare-metal embedded systems and/or real-time operating systems
  • Experience with microcontrollers, processors, peripherals, and hardware interfaces
  • Ability to read electrical schematics and component datasheets
  • Experience with hardware bring-up and debugging
  • Experience using oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, logic analyzers, and similar test equipment
  • Experience with embedded communication protocols such as CAN, LIN, SPI, I2C, UART, or Ethernet
  • Experience developing in Linux environments
  • Proficiency with Git and modern source control practices
  • Experience using Python for scripting, automation, testing, or development
  • Track record of delivering production-quality embedded software
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
  • Strong technical communication skills
  • Ability to independently own complex engineering initiatives
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced engineering environment

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience using AI coding assistants, AI agents, or agentic development workflows as part of the software development lifecycle
  • Experience building automated AI-driven workflows for coding, testing, debugging, documentation, or code review
  • Battery Management System (BMS) experience
  • Power electronics or energy storage experience
  • Automotive, electric vehicle, robotics, aerospace, medical device, industrial automation, or other embedded systems experience
  • Experience with functional safety or safety-critical systems
  • Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
  • Experience with embedded Linux
  • Experience with networking or distributed embedded architectures
  • Experience with CI/CD and automated embedded software testing
  • Technical leadership or mentoring experience

Our Vetting Process

At Emergent Staffing, we work hard to find the Engineers who are the right fit for our clients. Here are the steps of our vetting process for this position:

  1. Application (5 minutes)
  2. Online Assessment (40-60 minutes)
  3. Initial Video Interview (30-45 minutes)
  4. Video Interview with Hiring Manager (30-45minutes)
  5. Technical Interview On-site (60-90 minutes)
  6. Final Leadership Interview On-site (60 minutes)
  7. Job Offer!

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