Headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in Stuttgart, Germany, Shaper was founded in 2012 with a mission of making precision cutting easy and accessible to craftspeople everywhere. In pursuit of that goal, Shaper developed Origin, the world's first handheld CNC router. Today, Shaper supports thousands of woodworkers and craftspeople around the globe with an expanding range of hardware and software tools that are designed to intuitively meet users' creative needs.

We’re looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is focused on microcontroller firmware development and linux kernel/driver development.

In this role you will serve as the technical lead for the design, development, and maintenance of the low-level software that makes Shaper’s hardware products tick. Shaper’s firmware is a sophisticated codebase with a focus on reliability, operator safety, and real-time execution of tasks for precision, closed-loop motion control. It is compiled against multiple targets and leverages custom drivers to communicate with a Linux host system running on an application processor. As such, this role will be expected to work on both embedded C/C++ microcontroller code (ARM M cores) and on Linux kernel and driver code running on ARM A cores. You will be expected to build code that is well documented, capable of utilizing hardware-in-the-loop continuous integration and unit testing, and highly maintainable and extensible across multiple platforms. A successful applicant to this role should be extremely comfortable dealing with ambiguity and does not shy away from proposing and owning product architectures to meet high-level product goals. This role will report to the SVP of Engineering, but you will work closely with manufacturing engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, program managers, and system architects.

Depending on the applicant, this role may manage one or more other embedded software engineers. At a minimum this role will serve as a technical leader and mentor to other embedded software engineers at Shaper.

This role is being offered as in-person (flexible). You’ll work alongside your peers in our new workspace in San Francisco's SoMa district. You’ll have access to our 5000 square foot workshop which is fully kitted out with all the woodworking machinery you could ever wish for (including Origin). There is an expectation that you will spend time in the office (as you will be working on hardware platforms that may only exist at Shaper HQ). The exact in-office/at-home schedule is flexible. You’ll work with your manager on identifying when you are required on-site.

Although we do our best to list everything we are looking for in a candidate, we are very likely missing skills and/or attributes that could make you a great fit for the role. Research has shown that women and other marginalized groups are less likely to apply if they don’t clearly meet every requirement. This means we both might miss out on a great opportunity—it never hurts to take a chance and apply.