Embedded Engineer
Posted 14 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Embedded Engineer”
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- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
About Obvio AI
Each year, more than 40,000 people in the U.S. leave home and never make it back due to traffic crashes. At Obvio, we believe these deaths are preventable. We deploy solar-powered, AI-assisted cameras to enforce traffic laws where pedestrians are most vulnerable, automating enforcement in ways that traditional systems cannot. Our approach has already led to a 50% reduction in reckless driving in early partner cities.
Founded by the team behind Motive's AI dashcam and backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Khosla Ventures, we are building the intelligence layer for safer streets globally.
About the Role
Obvio deploys AI-assisted cameras to make streets safer. We’re hiring a Senior Embedded Engineer to own the software that turns cameras, compute, and vision models into reliable products in the field.
You will be the senior technical owner for production vision systems on the edge—from image capture and model execution through device services, fleet observability, and safe rollout. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role: you’ll write and review code, debug systems in the field, make architecture and trade-off decisions, and raise the engineering bar across the team.
What You’ll Do
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Own the production embedded vision stack, including camera capture, media pipelines, model inference, tracking, pre- and post-processing, device services, and cloud interfaces.
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Design software for real-world operation: constrained resources, long uptimes, fault recovery, data integrity, and remote diagnostics.
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Build observability for deployed devices—metrics, logs, traces, crash data, health signals, and tools that make field issues diagnosable.
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Lead safe fleet releases with versioning, staged rollout, compatibility checks, rollback, and over-the-air update strategies.
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Drive architecture and technical decisions across embedded Linux, hardware, vision, backend, and product boundaries.
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Own problems through production: respond to incidents, find root causes, and turn field learning into durable platform improvements.
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Mentor engineers, lead design & architecture decisions, and establish practical standards for performance, reliability, testing, and maintainability.
What We’re Looking For
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7+ years building embedded or edge systems, with a track record of shipping and operating production hardware/software products.