Embedded Engineer
Copper
Overview
Join our growing team working on decarbonization in electric home appliances! This is a full-time position as Embedded Software Engineer working at Channing St. Copper Company in Berkeley, CA. We value a diverse workplace, and are assembling our team to match these values at this early stage. We especially welcome different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and strongly encourage people of all backgrounds and genders to apply.
The ideal candidate:
You’re passionate about building great software to run great hardware. You enjoy collaborating across disciplines and are comfortable working on a small, nimble team. You’re a tinkerer, but you also recognize the importance of good documentation, version control, and other best practices. You write solid code, but also dabble in UI/UX and are comfortable reworking a PCB. You care about your colleagues and are committed to helping build a workplace that is fun, inclusive, and productive. You care about climate, know what a heat pump is, and might even have an electrification hobby.
What you'll do
- Develop, enhance, and maintain firmware for the Charlie induction range.
- Interface with hardware design and development teams to ensure smooth integration of software and hardware components.
- Implement and test new features (note: this often means cooking food).
- Identify bugs and implement robust solutions (note: this also often means cooking food).
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of code, software architecture, and user manuals to ensure smooth transitions and updates.
What you'll bring
- Experience debugging hardware systems with a testing-driven and methodical approach.
- Ability to distill a complex problem down to fundamentals and implement an appropriate solution.
- Ability to build for robustness and extensibility by anticipating failure conditions and future expansions and writing code in a way that allows both to be handled gracefully.
- Deep knowledge of C programming for embedded systems.
- Familiarity with ESP-IDF (ESP-32 development framework), or ability to pick up new libraries.
- Background in electrical hardware (e.g. PCBs).
- Comfortable working with version control (e.g. Git) and project management tools (e.g. issue tracking).
- Testing code with hardware (e.g. revision and unit testing).
- Comfortable generating documentation for code and hardware.
- Experience with 1-2 full product development cycles from concept to shipping product.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related field is preferable but not a strict requirement.
- Two years of industry experience is preferable but not a strict requirement.
We're looking for the following traits for this role:
- Methodical and testing-driven: Breaks down a problem into logical and empirical steps where each one adds pertinent information towards its solution.
- Communicative: Effectively participates in information-sharing, with an ability to abstract away details in order to communicate the important aspects of work.
- Creative: Finds elegant or insightful solutions to problems, often with limited resources (e.g. physical space, processor hardware resources, etc.).
- Solutions-oriented: Biases their work towards finding solutions when problems are identified. debugging hardware systems with a testing-driven and methodical approach.
Location
This is an in-office role that is on site four days per week minimum. Our office is located in Berkeley, CA.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $180,000. We are committed to equitable compensation, and we offer a generous benefits package to make sure you have the support you need. We cover 100% of the premiums for our employees and 50% of the premiums for their dependents on our base plans for medical, dental, and vision insurance. We offer a 401(k) plan for employees to contribute to, in addition to many other benefits. Every employee, regardless of gender identity or expression, is eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave after three months of employment (eight weeks through Channing Copper and eight weeks CA Paid Family Leave).
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our products. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
About Us
Copper's vision is a future where every home is electrified with abundant clean energy. Our mission is to make decarbonization accessible to everyone by selling electric home appliances that enrich their daily lives. We're reducing the cost of electrification by integrating batteries into household appliances, starting with the stove. Our work has been funded by the Department of Energy, in an effort to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and increase energy resilience with products that are high-performance, safe, intuitive, and robust. As we build our team and pursue our mission, we do it with a strong sense of our core values because it's not just what you do, it's how you do it. You'll see this in high-level decisions, how we run meetings, our day-to-day work, hiring, and our interactions with customers and the broader community. We intend to have a massive impact on our team, our neighborhood, and the world.