Staff Software Engineer -Sensing

Canopy Works • San Francisco, CA

2d • $200,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Canopy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop our next-generation sensing data pipeline — building the “physical full stack” from firmware and edge algorithms to the backend and frontend services that power them. You will bridge physical hardware and cloud systems, applying physics-based modeling to solve complex sensing challenges at scale that are not possible with traditional products. This is a unique role within Canopy to translate hardware schematics and firmware design into products that work in harsh environments and result in life-saving outcomes. We care deeply about building highly automated development environments that accelerate our prototyping and verification cycles, ensuring our mission-critical systems are built faster, safer, and with greater precision.

Requirements

• Deep proficiency in Rust, C, C++, Python with practical experience in RTOS (Real-Time Operation System) (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS) and Embedded Linux (e.g., Yocto, Buildroot).
• Intuitive grasp of digital electronics, board-level bring-up/validation/debugging, BSP (Board Support Package) and peripheral communication (SPI, I2C, UART, and interrupt-driven design).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and diagnostic tools at the hardware/software boundary.
• Experience building deterministic, timing-sensitive firmware that integrates effectively with cloud-native data pipelines.
• Find extraordinarily creative ways to amass training data quickly to develop production-grade algorithms.
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in applied signal processing, machine learning
• Experience in healthcare, GIS, safety-critical, or high-availability environments
• Experience scaling SaaS platforms through periods of rapid growth
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, real-time systems, or location-aware platforms
• Familiarity or interest in contributing to Distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
• Modern full-stack application development
• DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of next-generation hardware that will be in the hands of millions of healthcare professionals
• Design and implement robust firmware across Canopy devices; build and maintain a powerful HIL automation platform to accelerate development and enforce system safety
• Apply signal processing and machine learning for on-device algorithms, cloud pipelines, and field-ops tools
• Collaborate across hardware product and software teams to launch production-grade sensing devices at scale
• Apply systems-level design intuition to compute layers power management and communication protocols
• Engineer industrial-grade fault-tolerant designs to ensure reliability during unexpected power events

Benefits

• Work on technology with real-world impact in healthcare environments
• Influence architecture and engineering direction at a critical stage of company growth
• Operate with high autonomy and meaningful ownership
• Collaborate with a mission-driven, highly capable team
• Help shape how a scaling engineering organization operates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior