Platform Engineer

Miku, Inc. is a passionate group of engineers...and parents...who banded together to create a revolution in awareness for mothers and fathers and a safer world for babies.
A whole lot goes into building a product that delivers peace of mind. We have created a video baby monitor that is simple to use and intuitive enough to seamlessly fit into your life whether you're in the next room over or away from home on the other side of the world.
Miku is looking for Platform Engineers. In this role, you will collaborate with a cross-functional internal design and engineering team to help deliver new and exciting functionality to our customers and help create future generations of Miku products. The ideal candidate will be experienced in developing software in a fast-paced production environment that delivers performance for users in mission critical use cases.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and test embedded applications following our software development plan
• Design, build, and test system level modifications as needed
• Deliver well-performing, high-quality, responsive functionality to our customers
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced environment to design, implement, and deploy new features
• Work effectively with both customer service and engineering staff to troubleshoot, isolate, identify and correct issues
• Maintain robust, well-documented, organized, readable code
• This is hybrid position integrating office attendance with work from home opportunities

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• B.S. degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in software development
• Professional experience writing embedded software in C/C++
• Experience developing software with high reliability, stability and availability in a critical use-cases for a large user base
• Knowledge of embedded Linux, system resource management, multithreading, and inter-process communication techniques
• Experience with Yocto Linux
• Experience with the Bitbake build system.
• Experience with writing and adding new recipes to an existing Yocto BSP.
• Familiarity with Git or equivalent software configuration management tools
• Familiarity with the software development life cycle including requirements, design, implementation, as well as unit, integration, regression and system testing
• Good technical communication and collaboration skills in a cross-functional team working in a hybrid work environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong skills with various communication interfaces (SPI, serial, PCI, WiFi, etc)
• Strong knowledge of the Linux kernel and middleware
• Extensive knowledge of computer architecture, system, power and memory considerations with the goal of improving and optimizing the performance of the embedded system