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Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Tarana Wireless

Tarana Wireless

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 13, 2024
As a member of the Systems Software group you will work in a team whose primary responsibility is to bring up and maintain a stable operating platform and build system for our next generation Fixed Wireless Access (ngFWA) products.

You need to have the ability to lead features to their completion and to understand critical issues and come up with optimal solutions to resolve them. You should be willing to learn continuously and collaborate with other team members.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Hardware Engineers, Firmware Engineers, Software Engineers and Product Managers to design, develop, integrate and test new features: collecting requirements, understanding HW/SW interactions, producing design documents and test plans, and writing software
  • Provide platform software expertise to application developers to enable the development of a stable high performance product
  • Work in the lab to validate functionality, reproduce and debug issues, set up and automate tests, and provide software support
  • Dive into unfamiliar component datasheets, work with product reference boards and supplier FAEs to investigate, debug and solve problems and use information learned to guide design improvements
  • Work with manufacturing and operations to provide software support for the qualification of alternate parts, BOM updates, and pre-provisioning of components

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  • BS in Computer Science/Engineering, MS preferred or equivalent industry experience
  • Expert knowledge of Linux/RTOS platform development in modern multi-core ARM processor based embedded systems
  • 5+ years of C/C++ embedded systems development experience
  • Ability to write scripts and automate tasks with python and bash
  • Comfortable working in an electronic lab environment, probing hardware, and experience with common lab equipment such as JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes and signal analyzers
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Experience reading schematics and datasheets
  • Attention to detail

Desirable Qualifications:

  • Experience in embedded software development for carrier and/or enterprise products in telecommunications. Ideally on products with internally developed SoCs
  • Experience with git, Rust, golang, bazel, buildroot, grpc, protobuf, zephyr, U-Boot, ATF

This role is 100% on-site based out of our Milpitas, CA office

The salary range for this position is: $130,000 to $175,000

Compensation will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to: skill set, years of experience and the employee’s geographic location.

Tarana provides competitive benefits to employees in this role including: Medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K match, flexible time off and stock option.

Since our founding in 2009, we’ve been on a mission to accelerate the pace of bringing fast and affordable internet access — and all the benefits it provides — to the 90% of the world’s households who can’t get it. Through a decade of R&D and more than $400M of investment, we’ve created an entirely unique next-generation fixed wireless access technology, powering our first commercial platform, Gigabit 1 (G1). It delivers a game-changing advance in broadband economics in both mainstream and underserved markets, using either licensed or unlicensed spectrum. G1 started production in mid 2021 and has now been installed by over 160 service providers globally. We’re headquartered in Milpitas, California, with additional research and development in Pune, India.

G1 has been developed by an incredibly talented and pioneering core technical team. We are looking for more world-class problem solvers who can carry on our tradition of customer obsession and ground-breaking innovation. We’re well funded, growing incredibly quickly, maintaining a superb results-focused culture while we’re at it, and all grooving on the positive difference we are making for people all over the planet. If you want to help make a real difference in this world, apply now!