Founding Engineer (Edge Systems)

Role details

THE ROLE: Build the software that lives next to—or directly inside—the robot. Munari’s edge runtime must capture and synchronize high-rate multimodal data, run local models and detection logic, manage policy execution, survive intermittent networks, diagnose failures, and operate within tight CPU, memory, latency, power, and storage budgets. This is a systems role for someone who is comfortable moving between kernel behavior, hardware interfaces, real-time constraints, networking, and distributed systems. You are probably the person who reaches for perf, strace, bpftrace, ftrace, a packet capture, or a logic analyzer before guessing. WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON: - Architect and build a portable edge runtime for ARM, x86, NVIDIA Jetson, and industrial compute platforms. - Capture, synchronize, buffer, and selectively transmit video, sensor, actuator, telemetry, and policy data with minimal overhead. - Integrate Munari with Linux, ROS 2, DDS, cameras, sensors, motor controllers, field buses, and existing robot software. - Build local execution for models, policies, anomaly detection, event triggers, and automated failure capture. - Design device identity, configuration, secure updates, rollback, remote diagnostics, and fleet-wide runtime management. - Build for failure: watchdogs, crash recovery, safe degradation, offline operation, fault injection, and post-incident diagnosability. - Profile and optimize CPU, GPU, memory, I/O, networking, startup time, and power consumption. - Establish the boundary between our embedded runtime, customer software, robot hardware, and the Munari control plane. YOU MAY BE A STRONG FIT IF: - You are deeply comfortable in C, C++, or Rust and have strong Linux systems fundamentals. - You understand concurrency, scheduling, memory, networking, IPC, filesystems, and process isolation. - You have shipped software on embedded, robotic, automotive, industrial, aerospace, or other hardware-constrained systems. - You can debug a problem that crosses userspace, the kernel, a driver, a device, and the physical world. - You have practical instincts about reliability, graceful degradation, and the difference between theoretical and operational correctness. - You enjoy making complex software disappear into a small, dependable runtime. Experience with eBPF, PREEMPT_RT, systemd, Yocto or Buildroot, ROS 2, CAN, EtherCAT, GStreamer, V4L2, CUDA, TensorRT, or hardware-in-the-loop testing is valuable, but no single technology is required.