Senior Embedded Software Engineer | 100% Remote (CST)

Our Mission

We help pets and their humans to lead safer, healthier lives together.

Founded in 2013 and backed by Techstars and T-Mobile, FitBark is a data-driven pet tech company on a mission to get pets and their owners healthy and safe together. We design pet wearables that help humans in 140+ countries to get actionable insights into their pet’s location, activity, quality of sleep, calorie expenditure, mobility, skin conditions, anxious behaviors and overall health.

Our products include Bluetooth-enabled pet health monitors, as well as Wi-Fi and cellular-enabled GPS trackers. We develop all our wearables in house, including PCB design, firmware, data analytics, iOS, Android, web and smartwatch apps. Our platform has been adopted by 100+ vet schools and research institutions to validate new drugs, foods, procedures and medical treatments.

We are headquartered in Kansas City, MO in the heart of the KC Animal Health Corridor. We are a remote-friendly team with employees in the United States, Europe and Asia. We stand for a smarter breed of pet owners. We insist on beautiful design, insightful data, remarkable technology. If you believe you would thrive in a nimble, asynchronous, bureaucracy-free organization that is leading the charge in transforming animal and human health, we’d love to hear from you.

Your role at FitBark

Our engineering team is looking for a pet friendly, self-motivated, confident and passionate firmware engineer to help us develop our next generation of pet health and GPS trackers.

You will be tasked with the development of embedded software using cutting edge technologies in support of our software and data platforms. You will be required to think creatively to ensure that our platforms are optimized for low power consumption, while still maintaining the exceptional performance that our users expect.

This is a remote position that requires you to work in US Central Time (CST/CDT). International candidates are encouraged to apply.

How you'll improve the lives of pets and humans

• Design, implement and optimize high performance algorithms for wireless data transfers
• Understand HW / SW interactions and collaborate with various software engineers
• Diagnose and debug real-time embedded software systems
• Provide reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem-solving techniques
• Perform periodic low-level software maintenance as required on product platforms in production
• Offer process improvement suggestions and author new procedures as appropriate for production testing
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Report directly to our CTO

Essential skills of a strong candidate

• 3+ years recent experience in firmware design and development
• Strong design, coding, and debugging abilities with embedded micro controllers programming
• Proficiency in writing software in C on embedded processors
• Demonstrated experience in commonly used communication protocols (I2C, SPI, USART, etc.)
• Experience developing for low power microcontrollers (e.g. TI MSP430, Cortex M series, Atmel AVR) required.
• Experience optimizing peripheral/sensor communications for low power
• Familiarity in writing embedded C code for network protocols such as BLE, TCP, and UDP.
• Proficiency in integrating and porting device drivers
• Proficiency in using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and multimeters, debuggers to design, test and validate embedded systems
• Understanding of real time issues
• Fluency in spoken and written English

Desirable skills

• Multi thread and FreeRTOS experience.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field

Ready to join the pack?

To apply for this position, please visit http://www.fitbark.com/careers/

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: From $40,000.00 per year

Work Location:

• Fully Remote