Titlesby GlyphEmbedded Software Engineer a new title on company job boards
Engineering · Emerging, unverified · not on Hacker News yet · 33 open roles at 16 companies · median $195k
An embedded software engineer develops low-level software running directly on hardware devices and microcontrollers.
Why it exists
Written by rule from our own data
First seen in our data in November 2023, in a company job-board posting from Verkada. Today 33 open roles use the title at 16 companies, most of them in robotics and autonomy.
- PostingThe oldest Embedded Software Engineer posting we holdVerkada, Nov 2023 · backs: first sighting
- PostingEmbedded Software EngineerLoft Orbital, Nov 2026 · backs: an open posting with the title
Where it is posted
Sectors
- Robotics and autonomy10
- Consumer1
- AI infrastructure1
Cities
- Palo Alto11
- San Francisco5
- San Diego2
Countries and remote
- United States29
- Finland1
- Poland1
Posted pay
Middle half $161k to $222k, median $195k from 27 postings that state a base range (USD a year).
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago| # | Company | Open roles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anduril IndustriesA company hiring most for Systems Engineer and Test Engineer. | 6 | |
| 2 | 5 | ||
| 3 | VerkadaA company hiring most for Solutions Engineer and Engineering Manager. | 4 | |
| 4 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | ||
| 7 | Two Six TechnologiesA company hiring most for Systems Engineer and DevOps Engineer. | 2 | |
| 8 | 1 | ||
| 9 | AquabyteA company hiring most for Embedded Software Engineer. | 1 | |
| 10 | 1 | ||
| 11 | Commonwealth Fusion SystemsAn American fusion power company founded in 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | 1 | |
| 12 | 1 |
Open roles
8 of 33; company pages list the restEmbedded Software Engineer, Manufacturing Test, Intelligence Systems
Ashville, Ohio, United States
Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Linux
Long Beach, California, United States
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About this title
An embedded software engineer develops low-level software running directly on hardware devices and microcontrollers.
33 open postings titled "Embedded Software Engineer" at DoorDash, Zoox, Nuro, Skydio and 12 more (job-board scan, 2026-11-09; proposed by the model). One of the postings. Not checked by hand yet.
Median posted salary $195k from 27 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.