Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Alicat Scientific builds high-performance mass flow and pressure instrumentation. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer develops and maintains firmware for flow and pressure instruments, from hardware bring-up through production, testing, calibration, and field support.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement embedded C for our flow and pressure instruments: control loops, filtering, calibration routines, drivers, and hardware abstraction layers
• Build and maintain communication interfaces and industrial protocols, along with bootloaders, firmware update, configuration, diagnostics, and logging
• Work hands-on with Electrical Engineering during hardware bring-up, debugging at the register and signal level
• Help build out our unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing and CI pipeline
• Contribute to system architecture, design reviews, coding standards, and release practices
• Partner with Product Management and Applications Engineering to turn customer requirements into workable technical scope, and support manufacturing test and field diagnostics

Requirements:

• 6+ years of embedded software development in C on microcontrollers, in products that shipped
• Strong real-time fundamentals: interrupt-driven design, memory management, deterministic timing, and RTOS-based or well-structured bare-metal architectures
• A track record of owning firmware modules from design through production release
• Hardware bring-up and debugging experience with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Fluency with embedded toolchains, Git, automated testing, and static analysis
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future
• A BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is valued
• Control and signal processing: PID tuning, digital filtering, sensor calibration
• Interfaces and protocols: UART, SPI, I²C, USB, RS-232/RS-485, CAN, Ethernet, Modbus, CANopen, EtherNet/IP, IO-Link
• Bootloaders and secure or robust firmware update
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing and CI/CD for embedded targets
• Manufacturing test integration
• Embedded Linux or Python tooling