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title: 'Senior Embedded Software Engineer - R&D at SoloPulse'
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# Senior Embedded Software Engineer - R&D at SoloPulse

- **Company:** SoloPulse
- **Location:** Peachtree Corners, GA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/solopulseco/7fcd9f96-9584-4ceb-b6b2-d66a293630fa

## Job description

SoloPulse Corp is a dual-use radar company committed to the relentless exploration of the frontiers of radar sensing technology. Located in Atlanta, GA, SoloPulse stands as a venture-backed startup, diligently cultivating strategic collaborations to proactively address critical safety imperatives and emerging autonomy needs across both civilian and military domains. Our distinguished team encompasses accomplished engineers, seasoned advisors, and experienced startup veterans, collectively driven by an overarching mission to change the way the world sees.

## Responsibilities

- Designing and bringing up complete hardware/software systems involving radar, RF sensors, SDRs, embedded computers, GPUs, networking, and other specialized hardware
- Developing the software interfaces required to communicate with new sensors and hardware, including drivers, device interfaces, acquisition software, configuration, synchronization, and health monitoring
- Taking unfamiliar hardware from initial bring-up through reliable data streaming into a custom software system
- Working directly with hardware during development, including reading schematics and datasheets, debugging interfaces, using lab equipment, modifying cables or connectors, and performing basic electronics rework or soldering when necessary
- Designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency data paths between sensors, embedded processors, GPUs, and downstream systems
- Integrating multiple sensors and hardware subsystems into complete real-time systems, including managing timing, synchronization, interfaces, and data flow
- Developing software for custom interfaces and experimental hardware configurations when existing vendor interfaces are insufficient
- Working with RF and digital hardware engineers to understand signal chains, interfaces, hardware limitations, and system-level tradeoffs
- Developing tools and test infrastructure for hardware bring-up, data collection, system validation, and automated testing
- Developing practical diagnostics, logging, telemetry, and health monitoring needed to understand system behavior during development and field testing
- Rapidly prototyping hardware/software architectures to determine whether new sensors, interfaces, or system concepts are technically viable

## Key Qualifications

- BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- 4+ years of demonstrated experience building and integrating complex hardware/software systems
- Strong proficiency in C++ and Python
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system architecture, concurrency, memory management, networking, debugging, testing, and maintainable interfaces
- Demonstrated experience developing low-latency, deterministic, real-time systems
- Experience developing software that interfaces directly with hardware, sensors, embedded computers, or specialized devices
- Strong understanding of data acquisition, buffering, synchronization, timing, and high-throughput data movement
- Ability to read and reason about hardware documentation, including datasheets, interface specifications, and PCB schematics
- Comfortable debugging systems across multiple abstraction layers, from physical connections and electrical interfaces through drivers, operating systems, and application software
- Hands-on engineering mindset and willingness to work directly with hardware, lab equipment, cables, connectors, and prototype electronics when necessary
- Ability to take an unfamiliar piece of hardware and determine how to make it communicate reliably with the rest of the system
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance; U.S. person required

Nice-to-have Qualifications

- Radar, RF, SDR, or digital communications experience
- Experience developing device drivers or hardware abstraction layers
- Experience with PCIe, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, CAN, or other hardware interfaces
- Experience with FPGA-based sensors or systems
- Experience with NVIDIA Jetson or other embedded GPU platforms
- Experience with high-bandwidth sensor integration, including radar, RF, INS, GNSS, cameras, or other sensors
- RF systems literacy, including familiarity with antennas, signal chains, link budgets, and RF integration tradeoffs
- Experience with hardware bring-up, board-level debugging, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or other laboratory equipment
- Experience with networking, high-throughput streaming, DMA, shared memory, or zero-copy data paths
- Basic electronics prototyping, soldering, cable fabrication, or PCB-level debugging experience

## About SoloPulse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SoloPulse is architecting a foundational layer of signal intelligence that converts invisible RF signals into persistent, actionable data for global operations, primarily serving defense and autonomous systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Peachtree Corners (Atlanta), Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Allyson McKinney and Michael McKinney

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Deep Tech, Defense Technology, Signal Intelligence, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Autonomous Systems
- **Target customers**: B2G (Defense/Government), B2B (Autonomous vehicle/Aerospace OEMs). Dual-use technology with both commercial and defense market applications.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To develop products that redefine global perception by harnessing cutting-edge physics and AI."

## Products & Services
- **SIGMA™**: A payload for threat detection (UAS and man-portable systems) delivering instant target fixes, situational awareness, and mission adaptability while remaining silent.
- **NOVA™**: A Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing system delivering real-time actionable intelligence for satellite constellations and UASs with unmatched clarity and speed.
- **Tactical EDGE Processing**: On-device, real-time signal processing solutions for edge deployments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$9.4M** (Seed + Pre-Seed)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt fund, lead), EVE Atlas, Crosscut Ventures, Cantos, Georgia Tech Foundation. Strong affiliation with Georgia Tech’s innovation ecosystem and research impact venture fund.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Headcount growth of **+83.3% YoY** (now 19 employees).
    - Active job postings: **10** (monthly postings up +11.1%, quarterly +42.9%, yearly +100%).
    - Raised a $7.15M Seed round in Jan 2025, enabling a confidential product pivot.
    - Described as having "particularly favorable" investor conditions for dual-use deep tech.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First Principles Physics**: Technology that "rethinks imaging elegantly from first principles" (per investor Thiago Olsen, a former physicist).
- **Dual-Use Market**: Applicable to both high-stakes defense contracts and massive commercial autonomy markets (anything that operates without human control).
- **Top-Tier Affiliation**: Originated from Georgia Tech IP, leveraging top academic research and talent pipelines (5 interns currently from Georgia Tech).
- **Silent Sense**: SIGMA’s ability to detect threats while remaining electronically silent is a critical moat in contested RF environments.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Pivot**: The 2025 seed funding is enabling a pivot to a new product platform (details confidential) that the founders believe will be the step needed to "truly Change How the World Sees."
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring DSP, Embedded, Systems, and RF engineers to accelerate product development.
- **National Security & Autonomy**: Prioritizing technologies for autonomous systems safety/control and defense situational awareness.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of "Kindness, Intelligence, Grit, and Accountability." Described as a "supportive, family-like culture" typical of the Atlanta deep tech scene. Mission-driven work on "fundamentally new sensortech."
- **Work Model**: Hybrid (offices in Peachtree Corners, GA). Internships and co-ops available.
- **Engineering Culture**: Highly technical, physics-first, and hands-on. Heavy focus on Signal Processing, Radar, and Embedded Systems. Very strong Georgia Tech talent pipeline.
- **Growth Opportunity**: High-growth startup (+83% headcount), significant recent funding, and early stage—meaning high impact and ownership for engineers.
- **Location**: Atlanta offers a favorable cost of living, access to Curiosity Lab (living lab for startups), and a vibrant but less competitive tech scene than the Bay Area.

## Sources
1. [solopulse.com](https://solopulse.com/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/solopulse-corp)
3. [Hypepotamus (Seed Funding Announcement)](https://www.hypepotamus.com/solopulse-raises-7-million/)
4. [Built In (Culture)](https://builtin.com/company/solopulse)
5. [Lever (Careers)](https://jobs.lever.co/solopulseco)

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