Senior C++ Engineer, Animal Guidance (Embedded)

📋 Description

• Own the guidance firmware, the virtual fencing logic on collars that decides when and how to guide
• Design guidance algorithms, state machines and the geometry behind virtual fences and paths
• Design the protocols that get guidance data onto the collar and animal data back off it over a
• Build in modern C++ (C++23) on FreeRTOS with constraints around power, memory and reliability
• Debug hard, intermittent, field-only problems using logs, telemetry and a genuine understanding of
• Work closely with firmware, backend and frontend engineers, designers and animal experts

🎯 Requirements

• Solid experience shipping software for resource-constrained systems, such as embedded devices
• Strong C++ fundamentals and software design patterns
• Comfort with tight constraints: concurrency, limited memory and stack, and real-time behaviour
• Good judgement under uncertainty: inaccurate sensor data, unexpected animal behaviour and unclear
• Enjoy reasoning about geometry, probability and timing
• A strong sense of ownership, understanding why something works

🎁 Benefits

• Wellness leave and unlimited paid annual leave
• Southern Cross Health Insurance
• 6 months fully paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 4 weeks fully paid secondary caregiver
• Annual $1000 self-development budget
• Inclusive and attractive remuneration package: salary, benefits and employee stock ownership plan
• Delicious snacks and drinks