Software Engineer (Embedded Engineering)

About Neuron Industries The leader in AI programmable PLCs in industrial automation. Backed by Y Combinator (S26).

• understanding how memory, concurrency, operating systems, communication, and
• timing affect a real system, then using that understanding to build and debug
• it.
• Gardena, CA • Full-time • On-site five days a week
• Develop low-level software for the Cortex runtime and the services that
• execute controller applications.
• Integrate industrial I/O, peripherals, and device communication with
• electrical and controls engineers.
• Build embedded Linux services and reliable interfaces between applications,
• the runtime, and hardware.
• Debug issues across software and hardware using traces, profiling, logs, and
• bench measurements.
• Improve latency, resource use, concurrency, and recovery behavior through
• measurement and targeted changes.
• Validate functionality and failure handling with automated tests,
• hardware-in-the-loop testing, and reproducible fault cases.
• Ship controller updates and diagnostics that make deployment and field
• troubleshooting dependable.
• controls physical hardware, and can explain what you personally implemented,
• tested, and resolved.
• Strong systems programming fundamentals, demonstrated in Rust, C, C++, or
• another relevant language.
• You can explain how memory, concurrency, timing, and hardware interfaces
• shaped your implementation, how you measured its behavior, and what you
• changed.
• Practical Linux experience and the ability to isolate failures across
• processes, device interfaces, and hardware boundaries.
• You use tests and instrumentation to establish correctness and diagnose
• difficult failures.
• You take ownership of working software, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and
• collaborate across disciplines.
• Rust experience, embedded Linux runtimes, device drivers, or integration
• across Rust and C/C++.
• Industrial automation, robotics, or device communication using protocols such
• as CAN, Modbus, SPI, I²C, or UART.
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing, real-time systems, controller updates, or
• diagnostics for deployed devices.