Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems

Team: Software

Location: Somerville, MA

Commitment: Full-Time

Workplace Type: hybrid

Salary:

Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.

Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.

Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.

The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively. 

That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.

We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.

Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to own signal processing and firmware of Laminar’s process-aware sensors. This is a hands-on technical role at the intersection of embedded systems, digital signal processing, and sensing methodology. You will implement new detectors and sensing elements, own the signal data from end to end, and work directly with Hardware and ML teams to get the visibility into the industrial processes we need. 

What You Will Do

Acquisition & Conditioning: Own the sensing signal chain, covering ADC acquisition and timing, filtering, integration and averaging strategy, and calibration. 
Sensor Integration: Integrate new detectors and sensing elements as our sensor lineup evolves. Own integration, supporting board bring-up through production-ready drivers. 
Noise Rejection: Get the real signal out of noisy environments. Tackle challenges like vibration, EMI, thermal drift, and more. 
Firmware development: Develop firmware in Zephyr to interface with new detectors into our existing modular sensor stack 
Calibration: Build the firmware side of calibration, including on-device coefficient storage, third party calibration procedures, and the final provisioning process for our sensors.
Device Connectivity: Ship drivers, OTA, and health monitoring for our sensors to carry data up to our Edge Gateway. 

About You

4+ years of experience building embedded software for sensors or instrumentation. 
Track record of owning the design, implementation, and success of significant components within a larger system.
Comfortable defining technical direction, taking ownership, and delivering in a fast-paced product iteration cycle. 
Strong embedded C/C++ on microcontrollers with production Zephyr experience. You are fluent in devicetree, Kconfig, west, and the device driver model. 
You have designed filters, tackled sampling and aliasing, and designed and debugged signal chains. 
Comfortable with analog: ADCs, gain, references, grounding, and noise. 
Testing heavy, pushing for unit tests, hardware mocks, CI, and collecting realistic data. 
Experience with optical and electrical sensing and emitters.
Experience productionizing new sensing methodologies, from prototype to deployed product. 

Benefits

• Direct impact on product and culture.
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Disability, Transportation benefit, Health and Wellness benefit, and more.
• 401k plan with employer matching
• Equity
• Competitive salary and bonus opportunities.
• Dynamic and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for growth and professional development.
• Access to Greentown Labs' extensive network of cleantech startups.
• Transportation benefit for your commute
• A team that celebrates together from rooftop lunches, ping pong matches, Lunch & Learns, and regular team events

Learn How We Think

•  Learn about our startup journey: Our Journey 
• How we're combating climate change: AI-Powered Climate Tech 
• A customer story: Unilever uses Laminar precision automation to cut time & water usage