Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Company Description
Lumotive’s transformative optical semiconductors are enabling Lidar 2.0 for consumer, mobility, and industrial markets. The company’s Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) optical semiconductors utilize revolutionary, patented beam-steering technology to deliver an unprecedented combination of best-in-class performance, cost, reliability, and size. Lumotive’s LCMs enable the industry’s first software-defined lidar with advanced perception capabilities. The company has received measurable industry acclaim, including: Sensors Converge/Fierce Electronics’ 2021 Startup of the Year, two CES 2022 Innovation awards, a 2022 SPIE Prism Award, a Business Intelligence Group Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award, and a prestigious Edison Award. Investors include Bill Gates, Himax Technologies Inc., MetaVC Partners, Samsung Ventures, and Quan Funds.

Lumotive is seeking a talented, energetic Senior Embedded Software Engineer to be the next addition to our elite team. Software engineering at Lumotive plays a critical role in our product development organization, both providing critical input to our system architecture definitions as well as delivering the control and processing solutions that translate raw data into accurate results which ultimately determine the performance capabilities of the final application.
This role is part of our foundational engineering team and will have a direct impact on customer adoption of our reference designs. You should have a passion for creating software solutions to challenging new problems while working within the constraints of edge and embedded compute platforms. Your knowledge and skills will be an asset to our company by both expanding the capabilities of our software engineering team and partnering with other functional leads to deliver efficient system-level results.
Lumotive is entering the next growth phase of our business, preparing to change the future of free-space optical sensing. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of the next technological revolution!
Responsibilities

• Maintain code quality through best practices, code reviews, static analysis and testing.
• Evaluate technical choices based on trade-offs and facts.
• Provide support to Engineering, Manufacturing and Customer Support teams to root cause software issues.
• Write clean, efficient and well-documented code in C/C++/Python languages.
• Create innovative solutions to complex problems on time.
• Review the software contributions of other team members.
• Participate in developing and maintaining relevant design practices, processes and standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities.
• Support the estimation and planning of new products and features.
• Manage work effectively through collaborative issue tracking.
• Execute fast-paced delivery with a customer-oriented focus on tasks that add value.
• Architect, design, develop, document and verify high-quality software to accelerate the evolution of Lidar

Qualifications

• Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and bare metal programming.
• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Good knowledge of embedded protocols especially I2C and SPI.
• Good knowledge of network development (sockets, TCP/IP).
• Strong scripting experience with Python / Bash.
• Modern software development practices e.g. CI/CD and automated testing.
• Experience developing for ARM processors.
• Able to interpret and review schematics.
• Strong embedded programming experience in C / C++.
• Expertise in Source code version control.
• 5+ years of industry experience.

Preferred

• Familiarity with FPGA/ASIC/RTL/SoC design experience is an asset.
• Familiarity working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban).
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Bitbucket, Jira).
• Familiarity with NXP Semiconductor platforms.
• Familiarity with Embedded Linux Distributions (Yocto).

Benefits
Additional Information

• Bonus
• Dental
• Vacation/Sick leave
• Per British Columbia ESA -11 Statutory Holidays
• FSA
• Long Term Disability
• HSA
• Vision
• Short Term Disability
• Company paid Benefits
• Life Insurance up to $50,000
• Health Insurance

Lumotive is an equal opportunity employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other legally protected status.
All your information will be kept confidential.