Embedded Systems Engineer

About the Company

Backed by leading climate and American dynamism investors, Terranova builds intelligent robotic systems to terraform the Earth itself - lifting land, restoring wetlands, and protecting critical infrastructure from floods and sea-level rise. Our mission is to preserve the built environment, create new habitats, and usher in an era of abundance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and debug embedded firmware in C/C++ with FreeRTOS for STM32 or similar ARM Cortex-M systems
• Design and review multilayer mixed-signal schematics / PCBs in Altium Designer
• Integrate sensors, radios, and power electronics with reliable, low-latency interfaces (I²C, SPI, UART, CAN, SDIO)
• Design and integrate long-range low-power wireless systems (XBee, LoRa) into deployed platforms
• Build and maintain Yocto Linux images for embedded gateways and edge compute systems
• Contribute to backend services and tooling in Go and TypeScript
• Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud and Cloudflare's serverless platform
• Characterize and optimize power budgets, EMI performance, and manufacturability
• Bring-up, test, and validate hardware prototypes through DFM/DFT cycles
• Support system integration and field debugging of deployed robotic platforms

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related field
• U.S. permanent residency

Preferred Qualifications

• Multilayer mixed-signal PCB design in KiCad or Altium
• ARM microcontroller firmware (STM32/ESP32/RP2040) in C/C++ with FreeRTOS or Zephyr
• RF and long-range low-power wireless systems (XBee, LoRa)
• Yocto or OpenEmbedded Linux build systems
• Go and TypeScript application development
• SQL and relational data modeling
• Vue and/or React frontend development
• Google Cloud and Cloudflare serverless
• Experience with SWD/JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes