Embedded Systems Engineer
Company Description
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. Our work supports climate
resilience, disaster recovery, and defense across the United States and beyond.
We’re assembling a world-class team that wants to work on something real, physical, and
civilization-scale. If you want your work to reshape the world (literally), this is the place to do it.
What to Expect
We are looking for a hands-on engineer who can take embedded ideas from schematic to prototype to production. You'll work on low-level firmware for microcontrollers, efficient peripheral interfacing, power-aware circuit design, radio frequency communication, and the software stack and autopilot system that ties it all together; bridging code and hardware to make our systems come alive in the field.
Key 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, including SQL data layers and Vue/React frontends.
- 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.
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