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Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Team Lead

💰 $160,000 - $200 🌍 Boston, San Francisco 📅 05/20/2024

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Job Description

About Lumafield:

Founded in 2019, Lumafield has developed the world's first accessible X-Ray CT
scanner for engineers. Our easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based software give
engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out, at an
extremely affordable price.

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 are an impact driven company obsessed with providing the best value to our
customers keeping their needs at the center of our evolution. Our team today
includes world-class researchers and industrial designers, PhDs, creators,
founders of successful startups, and zero egos. We are backed by top venture
capital funds like Kleiner Perkins, Lux Capital, DCVC, Spark Capital, and
others.

The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA and has an office in San
Francisco, CA.

About the role:

In this role, you will develop software that runs on Lumafield’s volumetric
imaging hardware. You will need to understand data flow through a complex
hardware and software system, leverage knowledge of modern application
architecture, rapidly prototype potential solutions, and always keep the
customer in mind. As an embedded software engineer, you will design and build
the data acquisition and machine control software that produces data for the
rest of Lumafield’s cloud-based software tools.

If you are interested in joining a well funded growth stage company this is
the perfect opportunity for you to become a part of the Lumafield team.

What you'll do:

* Drive development of the tech stack running Lumafield’s scanners
* Work closely with both hardware and software engineers on an ongoing basis
* Inform product direction with sound engineering decision-making

About you:

* Very strong in performant embedded Python, understanding performance impact of python fundamentals on operating systems and hardware
* Experience configuring, building and field-updating Linux for embedded devices
* Experience building and delivering software in manufacturing environments connected to PLCs
* Experience leading an Agile Software Development team
* Experience designing codebases and applications from first principles to shipped product
* Experience mentoring and coaching team members to reach their highest potential
* Have worked on software for a hardware product
* Weigh technology options carefully and communicate reasoning behind decisions
* Have opinions about best practices for interface design
* Think about security as part of design

Bonus points for:

* Bare metal firmware development for MCUs in low-level languages like C.
* Experience with event loops and async programming, especially with Python 3’s asyncio
* Broad knowledge of protocols like USB, RS-232, HTTP(S), websockets
* Frontend web experience
* Experience with modern web tooling, such as containerized deployments
* Some fluency with image processing, computer vision, or related fields

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.