Role at a Glance

Gecko Robotics’ multi-disciplinary electrical team designs, develops, and integrates the hardware, firmware, and software systems of the robot. As an embedded firmware/software engineer at Gecko, you will be involved in multiple aspects of the design process: conceptualization, requirements development, firmware design, integration, and validation.

Gecko is seeking an Embedded Firmware/Software Engineers over a range of experience levels.

Gecko’s engineers work in a hands-on, fast-paced environment. We’re seeking highly self-motivated individuals who thrive in a small company environment and are passionate about developing great products which solve challenging problems.

What you will do

• Specify, design, and implement deterministic functions and behaviors of embedded and software systems
• Bring up, debug, and improve hardware and software systems with hardware and integration engineers
• Design the firmware and accompanying software tools to support continuous development, integration, verification and validation, and speed up overall development process
  Work cross-functionally with hardware engineers, integration engineers, and other non-engineers to develop requirements of new systems and features
  
  

About You

• BS or beyond in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
• 2 or more years of experience in design, analysis, and debugging of firmware for complex or distributed electronic systems and electromechanical systems. Gecko is seeking engineers over a range of experience levels
• Proficiency in C
• Fluent in software fundamentals including software design and maintainability
• Experience with the embedded tools
• Ability to read and interpret PCBA schematics to develop and troubleshoot firmware
  Attention to detail shown through continuous improvements and enforcing best practices within the team, and throughout the organization
• Ability to work well and integrate with electrical engineers and others
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience in state machine design
• Scripting skills in a common language such as Python
• Experience in schematic design and capture (Altium preferred)
• Experience and/or knowledge of V-model and UML
• Experience with STM32, Protobuf, Docker, or ROS2
• Robotics experience in feedback and controls, localization, computer vision, ML, and etc.
• Knowledge of Git, Jira, and Confluence or similar tools

Experience working autonomously in a fast-paced, hands-on environment on concurrent projects
Solid understanding of digital and analog design fundamentals is essential along with excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills