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Embedded Software Engineer, Platform

Hark· Embedded Software
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San Jose, CA$120k - $300kfull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Embedded Software Engineer, Platform responsible for designing, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing the OS platform layer, user space services and daemons, and backend protocols on Hark’s AI hardware platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design, configure, maintain, and optimize the OS platform services on Hark devices
  • Build system services and daemons, frameworks, and networking primitives and protocols
  • Own backend integrations, including protocol design and the performance analysis behind it
  • Build and maintain virtualization frameworks and multi-OS system design, with the performance analysis to back it
  • Profile and tune the platform for performance and power across the full multi-core system
  • Partner with BSP, embedded software, UX, and backend teams so platform services, device software, and services land together

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional embedded software development experience on shipping hardware products
  • Proficiency in C, C++, or Rust
  • Deep understanding of computer architecture and operating system fundamentals
  • Experience building OS services, frameworks and platform software on embedded systems
  • Experience with one or more of: Unix or BSD Linux, VxWorks, QNX, or other modern operating systems
  • Experience with performance and power optimization
  • Familiarity with open source IoT frameworks such as MQTT, RabbitMQ, or CoAP
  • Experience building systems on modern, multi-core SoCs
  • Familiarity with embedded toolchains and cross-compilation

Skills

Required:OS platform servicesC/C++/RustPerformance and power optimizationNetworking primitives and protocols
Nice to have:Virtualization frameworks

Benefits

  • Compensation details provided during offer (base salary and possible additional components/benefits)
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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