Embedded Engineer (BSP), Staff

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: 8+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only

Location: Onsite — Austin, TX

Employment Type: Direct Hire, Full‑Time

Job Title: Staff Embedded Engineer (BSP)

Company Overview

9 Mothers Defense develops AI-enabled systems to counter unmanned aerial threats. Our first product, EDDA, is an autonomous counter-sUAS point-defense platform designed to detect, track, and neutralize Group 1 drone threats. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Position Summary

9 Mothers is seeking a Lead Embedded Engineer (BSP) to own the Board Support Package and embedded platform underlying our counter-sUAS systems. The Lead Embedded Engineer is responsible for board bring-up, Linux platform development, device driver engineering, and the operating system framework upon which our perception, controls, and autonomy software operate. This is a senior individual contributor position.

Essential Duties

• Lead end-to-end bring-up of new board revisions, including bootloader, kernel, device tree, and peripheral driver development.

• Own the Linux platform image that ships on production systems, including kernel configuration, patching, and long-term maintenance.

• Design and maintain the operating system framework supporting application software, including process supervision, inter-process communication, logging, configuration management, and update and rollback infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain device drivers for cameras, inertial measurement units, motor controllers, and custom hardware peripherals.