Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society. 

Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere.  Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter. 

While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart. Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised over $380M in venture capital including a recent Series E round led by Tiger Global.  Now surpassing a 3B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Role

As a member of the Device Systems Engineering team at Flock you will be equal parts scientist, engineer, maker, and communicator. We are looking for the next Senior Embedded Systems Engineer that will act like the glue between domains by: understanding, defining, fixing, and communicating to others how our devices/systems interact with each other, the physical environment, and customers. This role will be a professional generalist who is able to walk the line between scrappy prototype and production polish. 

How you'll make an impact:

• Collaborate with internal teams to align technical product requirements, and contribute to roadmap planning
• Create performance profiling dashboards and reports, hardware design guides, application notes, and other relevant technical collaterals
• Prototype, evaluate, and profile new design approaches and system solutions
• Work closely with a wide range of engineering and product disciplines in a fast-paced environment
• Analyze and root cause embedded system and product issues in the Android, MCU code, and hardware domain
• Contribute to system-level power, performance, and cost optimizations across products
• Work with stakeholders in Hardware, Software, Cloud Platform, Operations, and Program Management to define system requirements, testing procedures, integration and generally owning and addressing cross functional topics

We're looking for people with:

• Have a Masters or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5+ years experience
• Have hands-on embedded electronics prototyping experience
• Are comfortable interacting with code in multiple languages to create, validate, and profile embedded devices
• Are comfortable working cross-functionally across multiple projects
• Are able to squeeze power and performance out of a potato
• Possess effective verbal and written communication skills
• Have humility, curiosity, and a passion for sharing knowledge.
• Have experience commercializing electronic hardware in the consumer or industrial IoT space
• Have a healthy skepticism of and trust-but-verify relationship with abstraction layers

The ideal candidate will be comfortable:

• Acting as the glue between embedded hardware, software, and program management
• With bare metal and RTOS code on MCUs
• Translating product goals into technical requirements
• Prototyping and triaging issues on embedded Android and MCU systems
• Reading schematics and PCB layout
• Interacting with a variety of programming and scripting languages (C, Python, SQL, Kotlin, Matlab, Java, Bash)

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay, we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

Why Join Us?

Can you imagine a world without crime? We can. Our mission is simple, to eliminate crime. We pride ourselves on building a community of low-ego and easy to work with people. What makes Flock Safety special is a combination of interesting work, a compelling mission, and a chance to change the trajectory of your career. We are at a unique inflection point where, after a few (or many!) short years here, we know you will accelerate your career and look back fondly on your time with us and the work you did to make your community safer.

💰 Salary & Equity : In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $150,000-$180,000 as well as stock options

🌴 Use what you need PTO : We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!

⚕️ Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees : including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match. 

👪 Family Leave : We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers. 

🍼 Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered withMaven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility.

🧠 Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription toHeadspace

💖 Caregiver Support: We have partnered withCariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support 

💸 Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions. 

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.

🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.

🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area).

🐾 Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered withPumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies. 

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.