The Embedded Systems Engineer at Lumafield will develop and maintain software for industrial CT scanners, focusing on testing, validation, and collaboration across teams for system reliability.
About Lumafield:
Lumafield was founded in 2019 to upgrade manufacturing.
We are engineers with deep experience across the product development cycle, from initial ideas to shipping hardware, across industries and specializations, who became frustrated by the cost and complexity of modern manufacturing. So we decided to upgrade it.
Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they need tools that give them the greatest possible insight into their products. By offering unprecedented visibility into products, as well as AI-driven tools that highlight problems and generate quantitative data, Lumafield promises to revolutionize the way complex products are created, manufactured, and used across industries. We started with industrial CT scanning, which for us was the most valuable but underutilized tool in the manufacturing toolbox, enabling us to rapidly inspect essential components non-destructively.
We rebuilt the whole system, from X-ray capture, to computer vision analysis, to web-based collaboration, to the entire business model, making the most advanced manufacturing tech more accessible to every industry. Our company, like our platform, is designed for upgrades. We’re building for greater intelligence, autonomy, and speed. For deeper vision, operational excellence, and powerful insights. And then we'll upgrade it all again.
Lumafield is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, and has an office in San Francisco, CA.
About the role:
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Lumafield, you will work on the software that powers our next-generation, manufacturing in-line CT scanning products. You'll work on the bleeding edge of X-ray physics, high-speed detectors, image processing, and embedded systems. On a small team working on our newest hardware, you'll bring the skill to extract the highest quality data out of the system and achieve great outcomes for our customers.
This role is ideal for mid-career candidates who are looking for an opportunity to scale a fleet of edge devices from hundreds of units to thousands.
This role is located in Lumafield’s Cambridge, MA office. You may be required to travel occasionally to between the two offices, and visit our factory in Everett, MA.
What You'll Do:
- Write performance edge application software to acquire, process, and stream radiograph data
- Write appliance firmware to maintain tight control loops for scanner peripherals
- Participate in code reviews and help set a high standard for the team’s work
- Ship production critical Linux-based applications
- Collaborate closely with our product, research, hardware, and software development teams to understand requirements and architect solutions
About You:
- 5+ years of experience writing low-level, high-performance software in Python and C; you not only write code, but also understand the performance impact on a specific system.
- 5+ years of experience shipping applications with embedded Linux, including configuring core services such as udev, systemd, and kernel schedulers.
- 3+ years of startup experience – you know the trade-offs between shipping fast and perfecting a design.
- Experience writing firmware with STM32 microcontrollers or equivalent
- Experience with managing the software release lifecycle for a fleet of edge/IoT devices using industry-standard OTA update mechanisms, including fleet status and monitoring
- Mastery of software engineering fundamentals including debuggers, profilers, and evaluating trade-offs between different technology choices, and proficiency with Python’s built-in concurrency models (asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing)
- Basic familiarity with electrical engineering concepts including schematic layout, PCBA design, bring-up, and testing
- Able to design, integrate, and test systems by interpreting component and product datasheets.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
Bonus Points For:
- Experience building & shipping high performance hardware-accelerated image processing edge solutions using NVIDIA CUDA and/or Jetson platform
- Experience with classical computer vision techniques and machine learning CV algorithms
- Experience with microcontroller-based motor control
- Experience with shipping user-facing UIs written in React.js
The salary range listed here represents the anticipated low and high ends of the base salary. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. All full-time employees receive an equity grant.
Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as a health & wellness stipend, 401k, parental leave, flexible PTO, commuter benefits, company wide events and more!
Lumafield is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, because the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Do you feel like your skills don’t meet every single requirement listed? We encourage you to apply anyway – If you’re excited about our technology, the opportunity, and are eager to learn more we’d love to hear from you!
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information or veteran status.
Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.
Top Skills
C
Linux
Python
Qa Tools
Stm32 Microcontrollers
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