Sr. Embedded Engineer I, Edge Capture (6813)

MetroStar•Reston, VA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Sr. Embedded Engineer I, Edge Capture, you'll build the camera systems and on-device software that feed our video intelligence products, working alongside an agile team of AI engineers, data engineers, and DevOps engineers supporting federal and defense customers. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Our mission is: A passion for our people. Value for our customers.

Requirements

Strong experience with embedded Linux on ARM based systems on chip, including NVIDIA Jetson platforms, device tree configuration, and CSI camera enablement
5 years of hands-on development in C, C++, and Python on resource constrained devices
Expert experience with video capture and encoding pipelines, including GStreamer, V4L2, hardware accelerated H.264 and H.265 encoding, and RTSP or WebRTC transport
Strong experience integrating and synchronizing sensors such as inertial measurement units and GNSS receivers, including calibration and timestamp alignment across streams
Experience delivering media and telemetry to cloud services, including object storage, resumable and chunked uploads, and retry behavior under unreliable connectivity
Demonstrated experience integrating development kits and commercial off-the-shelf components into a working device that went to the field, including the packaging, power, and mounting work that required
Working knowledge of power budgeting, battery systems, and thermal management in compact devices
Ability to work with limited direction in an innovation environment where requirements evolve and priorities shift
Strong written communication skills, with the ability to document designs and test results for both engineering and customer audiences

Responsibilities

Own our edge capture devices end to end, from board bring-up and on-device software through the physical form factor that goes into the field
Perform bring-up and configuration on embedded Linux platforms, including flashing, kernel and device tree configuration, camera module enablement, and driver troubleshooting
Build and maintain on-device capture pipelines that record synchronized video and audio, attach sensor telemetry, and hold up under sustained field use
Design capture behavior that degrades gracefully in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited bandwidth environments, including local buffering and store-and-forward delivery
Integrate and synchronize sensors across capture types, including depth and stereo cameras, inertial measurement units, and positioning receivers, and you'll get their timestamps to line up
Take development kits and off-the-shelf components and turn them into fieldable units, working through enclosure, mounting, power, and thermal constraints, with rapid prototyping to iterate on the design
Produce bills of materials, assembly instructions, and test procedures
Present design tradeoffs and test results to a diverse audience in presentation or report form, including senior leadership and customer stakeholders