Senior Embedded Software Engineer

About Voyant Photonics

Voyant Photonics, based in the heart of New York City, is transforming machine perception with a new class of LiDAR devices that are compact enough to fit in the palm of your hand and powerful enough to measure range, velocity, and reflectivity with unparalleled accuracy. By leveraging cutting-edge silicon photonic chips smaller than your fingertip, we deliver sensors that are not only revolutionary in performance but also affordable enough to integrate into any system.

Our technology disrupts the status quo of bulky, expensive, and power-hungry LiDAR systems, making high-precision sensing accessible for widespread adoption in robotics, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial automation, and beyond. With Voyant, the next generation of machines can see, understand, and navigate the world like never before.

Discover how we’re redefining what’s possible by making real products out of cutting edge research in silicon photonics.

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Engineer with a strong background in Embedded Systems to join our engineering team. In this critical role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing the embedded software interfaces that power our advanced FMCW LiDAR. You will work across the entire product lifecycle, from architecture to implementation, testing, and deployment. If you are passionate about building robust, real-time embedded systems for groundbreaking LiDAR technology and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize embedded software and firmware for real-time operation of LiDAR systems

• Collaborate closely with hardware engineers, optical engineers, and signal processing experts to define system requirements, integrate hardware and software components seamlessly, and ensure optimal system performance

• Develop and implement APIs for both prototypes and products for embedded imaging sensors

• Implement 3D data visualization for lidar data from our sensors

• Optimize embedded code for performance, memory usage, and power consumption

• Contribute to system-level architecture discussions, identifying key trade-offs and proposing innovative solutions.

• Design and implement efficient monitoring and control algorithms

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems development.

• Experience with performant data serialization protocols

• Experience with live visualization of complex data sets

• Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with protocols for inter-component communication (e.g., Ethernet, SPI, UART)

• Familiarity with various microcontroller architectures (e.g., ARM Cortex-M/R/A, DSPs) and System-on-Chips (SoCs).

• Experience with FPGA/CPLD development (VHDL/Verilog) and hardware description languages is a strong plus.

• Experience implementing DSP algorithms in embedded C++ Linux environments

• Experience with PCL or ROS2

• Experience with Python for scripting, testing, and data analysis.

• Knowledge of sensor fusion techniques.

Benefits package

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity package

• Comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)

• Unlimited PTO and paid company holidays

• Team events and company meetups

• Hybrid or remote work environment with monthly travel for remote employees.