Embedded Software Engineer

About Origin

Origin (previously 10xConstruction) is building general-purpose autonomous robots for US construction to tackle rising costs, safety risks, and labour shortages. Our modular, multi-trade platform combines purpose-built hardware with real-time site intelligence to navigate complex environments and execute tasks with precision. Trained in high-fidelity simulation and already deployed on live sites, our robots deliver 5x faster execution, 250%+ margin expansion, and significant cost savings. Join India's most talent-dense robotics team consisting of individuals from IITs, Stanford, UCLA, etc.

About the Role

As an Embedded Software Engineer at Origin, you will write the firmware and embedded software that runs our robots, from microcontroller firmware on custom boards to drivers and real-time software on embedded Linux compute. In the coming months we are making major changes to the robot's electrical architecture (compute, safety and sensor subsystems). You will build the firmware for this new architecture together with our embedded hardware team. This is a high-impact role in a passionate, talent-dense team.

Key Responsibilities

Firmware Development

• Design, write and maintainreal-time firmwareinC/C++for microcontrollers (for example STM32, ESP32, NXP), onbare metaland on anRTOS(FreeRTOS, Zephyr or similar).
• Bring up new custom boards with the embedded hardware team: peripherals, clocks,bootloadersand board support packages.
• Write and maintainperipheral drivers: GPIO, ADC, PWM, timers, DMA, I2C, SPI, UART and CAN.
• Write firmware for thesafety, sensor and power subsystems, including watchdogs, fault handling and safe states.
• Writemotor-control and actuator firmware(BLDC, FOC, closed-loop speed and force feedback) for robot tools.

Actuator & Communication

• Develop software interfaces forCAN / CANopen / EtherCATbased actuators and motor drives.
• Write and maintain drivers formotor controllers,servo motorsandstepper motors.
• Define deterministic communication protocols between microcontroller nodes and the main robot compute.

Embedded Linux & Compute

• Integrate and configure SBCs (Jetson Orin,Jetson Nano,Raspberry Pi) as embedded compute nodes in the robot platform.
• Develop and maintainLinux kernel driversfor sensors and actuators, and contribute to Linux modifications and CPU/resource monitoring.
• Build monitoring and logging infrastructure for system health and fast debugging.
• Support theOver-the-Air (OTA)update pipeline for firmware and software.

Test & Debug

• Profile, debug and minimizelatency,jitterand timing issues across firmware and communication interfaces.
• Debug at the hardware/software boundary withoscilloscopes,logic analyzersanddebug probes(JTAG/SWD).
• Develop automated tests (unit and hardware-in-the-loop) for firmware.

Collaboration & Integration

• Work with the software team to integrate the electromechanical system onROS2and contribute to ROS2 driver development.
• Work with the embedded hardware and mechanical teams for seamless integration and system-wide performance.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Robotics, Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ yearsof hands-onembedded firmware developmenton real products.
• Strong embedded programming inC(C++ a plus).
• Experience with anRTOS(FreeRTOS, Zephyr or similar) and/or bare-metal firmware on microcontrollers.
• Experience writing peripheral drivers and communication protocols:I2C,UART,SPI,CANandEthernet.
• Experience with board bring-up and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and debug probes.
• Ability to read schematics and datasheets.
• Experience buildinglow-latency, real-time systems.

Preferred Experiences

• CAN / CANopen / EtherCATactuators andmotor-control firmware(BLDC, FOC).
• Embedded Linux, Linux kernel drivers andNVIDIA JetsonSBCs.
• Experience withROS/ROS2.
• Safety-related firmware (watchdogs, safe states, functional safety awareness).
• Experience withrobotic arms,AMR platformsormobile manipulators.
• Reverse-engineering and integrating off-the-shelf embedded systems.