--- title: 'Staff Software Engineer - Sensing at Canopy Works' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-software-engineer-sensing-canopy-works-san-francisco-atqw2prpa5w8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-15' --- # Staff Software Engineer - Sensing at Canopy Works - **Company:** Canopy Works - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-07-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/canopyworks/jobs/4317128009 ## Job description Staff Software Engineer - Sensing (SF Bay Area) San Francisco Bay Area Job Title: Staff Software Engineer Location: SF Bay Area ## About Canopy At Canopy, we build technology that helps make healthcare environments safer for the people delivering care. Our connected safety platform powers real-time communication, response coordination, and location intelligence across hospitals and complex care environments. We operate in high-trust, high-reliability environments where software quality, operational resilience, and customer experience matter deeply. Our engineering organization is scaling alongside our growth, and we are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can help shape both our technical direction and the way we build. This is not simply a feature delivery role. This is a systems-thinking role for an experienced engineer who can drive architecture, influence engineering standards, and help scale a platform, organization, and culture simultaneously. ## The Role Canopy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to develop our next-generation sensing data pipeline — building the “physical full stack” from firmware and edge algorithms to the backend and frontend services that power them. You will bridge physical hardware and cloud systems, applying physics-based modeling to solve complex sensing challenges at scale that are not possible with traditional products. This is a unique role within Canopy to translate hardware schematics and firmware design into products that work in harsh environments and result in life-saving outcomes. We care deeply about building highly automated development environments that accelerate our prototyping and verification cycles, ensuring our mission-critical systems are built faster, safer, and with greater precision. How to you will make 10X impact: - Drive the development of next-generation hardware that will be in the hands of millions of healthcare professionals - Design and implement robust firmware across Canopy devices; build and maintain a powerful HIL automation platform to accelerate development and enforce system safety - Apply signal processing and machine learning for on-device algorithms, cloud pipelines, and field-ops tools - Collaborate across hardware product and software teams to launch production-grade sensing devices at scale - Apply systems-level design intuition to compute layers power management and communication protocols - Engineer industrial-grade fault-tolerant designs to ensure reliability during unexpected power events We’re excited about you because: - You enjoy building, and thrive in teams that care a lot about people. - Deep proficiency in Rust, C, C++, Python with practical experience in RTOS (Real-Time Operation System) (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS) and Embedded Linux (e.g., Yocto, Buildroot). - Intuitive grasp of digital electronics, board-level bring-up/validation/debugging, BSP (Board Support Package) and peripheral communication (SPI, I2C, UART, and interrupt-driven design). - Ability to troubleshoot complex systems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and diagnostic tools at the hardware/software boundary. - Experience building deterministic, timing-sensitive firmware that integrates effectively with cloud-native data pipelines. - Find extraordinarily creative ways to amass training data quickly to develop production-grade algorithms. - Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. It’d be great if you also had these: - Experience in applied signal processing, machine learning - Experience in healthcare, GIS, safety-critical, or high-availability environments - Experience scaling SaaS platforms through periods of rapid growth - Familiarity with event-driven architectures, real-time systems, or location-aware platforms - Familiarity or interest in contributing to… - Distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures - Modern full-stack application development - DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering practices ## How We Work At Canopy, strong engineers do more than write code. We value people who: - Care deeply about the customer and mission - Act with intention and intellectual curiosity - Own outcomes, not just tasks - Win together through collaboration and trust We are building an engineering culture that prioritizes high standards, thoughtful execution, and continuous improvement — without ego or heroics. ## Why Join Canopy - Work on technology with real-world impact in healthcare environments - Influence architecture and engineering direction at a critical stage of company growth - Operate with high autonomy and meaningful ownership - Collaborate with a mission-driven, highly capable team - Help shape how a scaling engineering organization operates Canopy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building diverse teams and an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're excited about the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects, collaborate with a talented team, and make a positive impact on the lives of healthcare workers, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in making a difference, from anywhere in the world, and apply now! The base salary range for this position is $200k - $225k per year, depending on location, experience and qualifications. Canopy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ## About Canopy Works ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Canopy Works provides a connected safety platform for healthcare workers, using wearable technology and real-time alerts to protect hospital and clinical staff. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Shan Sinha (CEO & Co-Founder), Vinay Pulim (CTO & Co-Founder), Hemanth Meenakshisundaram (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Healthcare safety technology - **Target Customers**: B2B – hospitals, health systems, outpatient clinics, and home health services (Enterprise) - **Mission**: “To enhance healthcare worker safety and well-being through reliable, innovative, and ubiquitously connected technology solutions, delivered as a comprehensive, partnership-driven service.” ## Products & Services - **Canopy Connected Safety Platform**: End-to-end managed service integrating wearable safety devices, real-time alerts, and actionable insights. Includes four core solutions: - **Canopy Protect**: Wearable duress button for staff on hospital campuses (indoors and outdoors) - **Canopy Go**: Extends coverage to home health and community settings - **Canopy Find**: Personnel location and tracking (RTLS-based) - **Canopy Track**: Analytics and reporting for safety trends and operational improvements All products are delivered as a full-service offering (hardware, deployment, integration, training, 24/7 monitoring). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$22M** (Series B closed approximately 5 months prior to search date) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed beyond “partnership with leading health systems” and a team of “veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.” No lead investors named in available sources. - **Growth Signals**: - Protects over **350,000 healthcare workers** across **1,000+ locations** at 60+ leading health systems - Headcount grew **268.4% YoY** to 61 employees (as of mid-2025) - Claims **30% average reduction in assaults** in first 6 months and **75% improvement in staff safety confidence** - Open roles increased 50% monthly (LinkedIn data) ## Competitive Advantages - **End-to-End Managed Service**: Canopy handles everything from design and deployment to ongoing monitoring, reducing burden on hospital staff. - **Healthcare-Specific Design**: Purpose-built for clinical workflows, moving beyond generic panic buttons and legacy RTLS. - **Ubiquitous Coverage**: Reliable hardware works indoors, outdoors, and in community settings (home health). - **Proven Impact**: Published metrics on assault reduction and staff confidence improvement, strengthening ROI for customers. - **Deep Domain Expertise**: Leadership combines experience from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Dialpad with clinical understanding. ## Strategic Focus - **Expanding Adoption**: Growing from 60+ health systems to nationwide coverage; emphasis on reducing workplace violence in healthcare. - **Product Innovation**: Developing new solutions (Canopy Go, Find, Track) under the Connected Safety Platform. - **Scaling Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, customer success, and marketing to support growth. - **Building Safety Culture**: Moving beyond technology to become a strategic partner for healthcare safety and retention. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: Directly contributes to protecting healthcare workers and reducing workplace violence. - **Growth Stage**: Joining a company with 268% headcount growth and strong product-market fit — opportunity for career acceleration. - **Flexible Work**: Many roles are US-remote (Eastern, Central, or West Coast); engineering roles in SF Bay Area or NYC metro (hybrid). - **Culture**: Described as collaborative, purpose-driven, with emphasis on “meaningful impact” and “owning your work.” - **Cross-Functional Exposure**: Small team (~61 people) means engineers and product managers work closely with clinical strategy, sales, and customer success. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company offers “comprehensive benefits” (standard for Series B) and a focus on work-life balance. ## Sources 1. [canopyworks.com](https://www.canopyworks.com/) 2. [canopyworks.com/about](https://www.canopyworks.com/about) 3. [LinkedIn – Canopy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/canopy-works) 4. [CB Insights – Canopy](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/canopy-22) 5. 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