Embedded Software Engineer

The Role

Osprey Systems is building Canada’s sovereign counter-drone capability. Our distributed detection and interception system is designed for the environments where everything else fails: extreme cold, GPS-denied, and network-degraded conditions. We serve critical infrastructure operators and defense customers with a single product line, built in Canada.

We are a small founding team backed by a clear funding pathway through Canadian defense innovation programs and paid civilian deployments.

What You'll Do

• Build and own the embedded Linux platform on edge GPU hardware: images, provisioning, services, watchdogs, recovery.
• Design networking between distributed devices: peer discovery, routing, and graceful degradation when links or backhaul fail.
• Implement peer-to-peer time synchronization independent of satellite reference.
• Build staged, atomic OTA updates with automatic rollback for remote customer sites.
• Own power and thermal management in software on solar and battery budgets through extreme Canadian winters.
• Build fleet telemetry, remote diagnostics, and logging for distributed deployments.
• Integrate the engineering team’s work into a coherent, resource-budgeted system on the device.
• Help shape engineering culture, tooling, and hiring as the team grows.

Who You Are

• 5+ years systems or embedded software engineering on Linux.
• Strong C++ plus scripting fluency.
• Networking depth below the socket API, including unreliable links.
• Experience shipping remote unattended devices where a bad update means a truck roll.
• Whole-stack ownership: kernel config through application services through CI.
• Reliability mindset: design for failure and test for failure.

Bonus Points

• Edge AI platforms; mesh networking or LoRa; PTP and time-sync internals; Rust; Yocto or Buildroot; power-constrained systems; early-stage hardware startup experience.