Embedded Systems Engineer

Tractable • Salt Lake City, UT

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About The Position

We combine world-class AI research with real-world applications that make a difference. At Tractable, you’ll collaborate with brilliant minds, work on transformative projects, and contribute to technology that helps people when they need it most.
About the role
We’re building LUMA, a drive-through vehicle inspection scanner that combines multi-camera capture, active illumination, and multiple sensor modalities to generate high-fidelity vehicle imagery and measurements.
We’re looking for an Embedded Systems Engineer to own and evolve the device-side software/firmware stack that controls cameras and sensors, synchronizes capture, and enables new measurement capabilities.
This role sits at the intersection of embedded software, hardware integration, and sensor/vision data processing.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals (debugging, testing, reliability, version control).
• Experience integrating sensors/devices in real-world systems.
• Comfort working close to hardware: bring-up, wiring, and iterative troubleshooting.
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements and ship maintainable systems.
• Embedded/edge platforms: Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson, Arduino (or similar).
• Protocols and interfaces: RS-485, CAN, Modbus, UART/I2C/SPI, GPIO.
• Linux-based device development: system services, supervision, logging, performance profiling.
• Sensor/vision data processing: filtering, calibration, synchronization, map generation.
• Able to connect sensors to compute hardware safely and cleanly.
• Comfortable with basic soldering, crimping/connectors, and reading datasheets/wiring diagrams.

Nice To Haves

• Computer vision/depth sensing experience (stereo, structured light, LiDAR, triangulation).
• Multi-device synchronization (timestamps, trigger distribution, drift management).
• Production deployments (monitoring, remote updates, failure analysis).
• Python + C/C++ (and/or Rust/Go) in mixed systems.
• Familiarity with camera control APIs and image capture pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve camera control software (triggering, timing, health monitoring, error recovery).
• Maintain and improve sensor control software (presence/distance/measurement sensors, calibration, fault handling).
• Develop new scanner capabilities.
• Implement signal processing pipelines (e.g., convert laser triangulation outputs into 2D tread-depth maps; post-process stereo depth results; filtering/denoising; coordinate transforms).
• Prototype quickly, then harden implementations to production-grade reliability.
• Support system integration and deployments: bring up new modules, validate in the lab/on-vehicle, debug issues, and ship fixes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed