Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Job Title: Embedded Software Engineer V

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Chief Product Officer

Location: Goleta, CA or Beverly, MA (preferred); Remote considered when the architecture bar is clearly met

Position Type: Full-Time, Exempt, On-site, M1 or M2

Definition

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SIONYX is seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Embedded Software Engineer V to join our engineering team. This role will be responsible for designing, developing, integrating, testing, debugging, and maintaining embedded software for SIONYX's advanced imaging products.

The Embedded Software Engineer V will serve as both a technical leader and people leader, contributing directly to complex software development while providing mentorship, guidance, and management to other software engineers. The ideal candidate brings strong embedded software expertise, sound engineering judgment, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to develop and motivate a high-performing engineering team.

This is a hands-on leadership role. The successful candidate will balance individual technical contributions with project leadership, mentoring, team development, and people-management responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Lead the development of complex embedded software solutions and serve as a technical resource for the engineering team.

· Own architecture for the embedded Linux / ARM video pipeline that takes XQE sensor data to a usable color night-vision image.

· Lead sensor bring-up, FPGA/MIPI CSI-2 integration, and the interfaces between image sensor, SoC, and the rest of the camera.

· Design, write, and debug C/C++ for microcontrollers, ARM SoCs, and embedded Linux, using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude, and peers) as a normal part of the workflow. Drivers, BSPs, and the application layer when the path from photon to pixel is on you.

· Sit with EE, FPGA, optics, and image-processing on board bring-up. R