Lasers. Drones. Space Tech. Real Hardware. No Boring Firmware Here.
If you love embedded software, real hardware, lasers, drones, space tech, control systems, physics problems, and the kind of engineering that actually makes you lean forward in your chair, this one is going to get your attention.
We are working with an exciting deep tech company based in inner Sydney that is building wireless energy delivery through light. Yes, actual light. Think laser systems, optical hardware, power conversion, embedded control, telemetry, safety critical systems, and the software layer that helps make next generation energy transfer possible.
This is not another “maintain some old firmware stack and update tickets forever” role. This is hands on embedded engineering inside a fast growing company building something genuinely new.
The team is small now, highly technical, and expected to double over the next 12 months. That means you will not be a tiny cog in a massive machine. You will have real ownership, real influence, and the chance to help shape core embedded software architecture from the ground up. And yes, there is equity on the table.
What You’ll Be Working On
You will own and build embedded software across real hardware systems, from low level microcontroller control through to high level state management, telemetry, safety systems, and middleware.
You will be working close to the metal, close to the hardware, and close to some very clever humans across software, electronics, optical, mechanical, and systems engineering. This is where code meets physics. This is where C and C++ meet lasers. This is where firmware has to behave properly because the hardware is not theoretical, it is sitting right there in the lab.
What You’ll Own
- Develop, validate, and deploy real time embedded software on real hardware.
- Work across laser alignment, safety critical systems, power conversion, telemetry, and state machine control.
- Write low level drivers for microcontroller peripherals and communication interfaces including CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART.
- Help architect core middleware for communication, state management, telemetry, and robust error handling.
- Build automated test systems and CI/CD pipelines to support rapid iteration on hardware.
- Contribute to foundational embedded software architecture decisions that need to scale as the company grows.
- Collaborate with hardware, optics, systems, and mechanical engineers to solve complex real world problems.
In plain English, you will help build the software nervous system for a next generation energy platform. Not bad for a day job.
What We’re Looking For
- Probably 3+ years of hands on embedded software engineering experience.
- Strong with C and C++ for real time microcontroller systems — real embedded experience, not desktop C++ dressed up as firmware.
- Solid understanding of microcontroller peripherals and communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, CAN, and UART.
- Comfortable with modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and proper development workflows.
- You like working with real hardware — happy getting into the lab, testing, tuning, debugging, breaking things, fixing things, and making systems better.
- You enjoy ownership. You want to build, not just maintain.
Nice to Have
- Robotics experience would be brilliant.
- Aerospace or avionics experience would also be highly relevant.
- Control systems, electronics, functional safety, or safety critical embedded systems would be a strong plus.
- Hands on lab experience tuning and optimising control algorithms on real hardware.
If you have worked in drones, aerospace, robotics, defence tech, energy tech, hardware startups, optical systems, autonomous systems, or anything where software meets serious hardware, this could be a very strong fit.
Why This Role Is Different
Because you are not joining a sleepy corporate engineering team. You are joining a company building something ambitious, physical, technical, and genuinely frontier.
The team is still small enough for your work to matter every day. The company is growing quickly and expects to double in size over the next 12 months. The technology is exciting. The lab is properly decked out. The hardware is real. The problems are hard. The mission is big. And the opportunity is early enough that equity could actually mean something.
This is the kind of role for an embedded engineer who wants to look back in a few years and say: “I helped build that from the early days.”
Location
Inner Sydney. This is a hands on hardware role, so you will need to be comfortable being onsite regularly. There is some flexibility, but this is not a remote firmware role where the hardware lives on someone else’s desk. The lab, the lasers, the hardware, and the team are in Sydney.
Salary and Equity
- Base salary: approximately A$125,000 to A$170,000
- Equity: around 0.1%, with a standard 4 year vesting schedule
- Full time permanent role
- Visa sponsorship support may be available for strong candidates relocating to Australia.
Benefits and Perks
- 8 weeks paid parental leave
- Relocation budget and support, pets included
- Unlimited paid personal leave
- A$1,000 annual growth and wellness budget
- Company social events including hiking, skiing, and more
- Fully decked out laser facilities with cutting edge hardware, snacks, and tinker friendly tech
Who This Will Suit
This will suit an embedded software engineer who wants to do meaningful, hands on, deeply technical work. Someone who likes C and C++. Someone who enjoys real time systems. Someone who wants to build on real hardware. Someone who would rather solve hard physics adjacent engineering problems than sit in meetings about roadmap alignment. Someone who sees lasers, drones, space tech, power systems, and embedded control and thinks: “Yep. That sounds like my kind of chaos.”
Final Word
If you are an embedded software engineer who wants to work on something genuinely exciting in Sydney, this is one of those rare roles where the pitch is actually real. Real hardware. Real lasers. Real engineering. Real ownership. Real equity. A team that is growing fast. And a mission that sounds more like the future than another SaaS product pretending to be exciting.
Interested? Let’s talk.
