The Role We are looking for an Embedded Systems Engineer to design and maintain the firmware and hardware interfaces that make our robotic inspection platforms operate reliably in demanding field conditions.

What You Will Do

Design and implement firmware for robotic control boards, sensor interfaces, and communication modules

Develop and maintain hardware abstraction layers for sensors, actuators, and power systems

Implement and optimise communication protocols: CAN bus, RS-485, SPI, I2C, Ethernet

Work with ROS 2 hardware interfaces to expose embedded subsystems to the autonomy stack

Design and validate power management systems for extended field operation

Contribute to PCB design reviews and hardware bring-up processes

Develop automated test fixtures and HIL (hardware-in-the-loop) test environments

What We Are Looking For

3+ years of embedded firmware development in C/C++ for production hardware

Experience with real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr,



or bare-metal RTOS patterns)

Strong understanding of communication protocols: CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-485

Experience integrating embedded systems with Linux-based compute platforms

Ability to read and review schematics, contribute to hardware design discussions

Experience in an industrial, robotics, or safety-critical embedded context is highly regarded

Where You’ll Work Our head office is in Melbourne and we have a second office in Sydney. We are open to versatile and remote working arrangements anywhere in Australia for the right person, so where you are based should not stop you from applying.

This role does involve periodic travel to sites where our systems are deployed, across infrastructure, rail and construction projects around the country.

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📌 Engineering Embedded Systems Engineer Brisbane, QLD 3+ years (Port Phillip City)
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