# Embedded Linux Robotics Software Engineer - Rust at Proception Inc

- Company: Proception Inc (YC W25)
- What the company does: Making humanoids dexterous enough to thread a needle. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://proception.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-05-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proception-inc/jobs/3Y8jvJh-embedded-linux-robotics-software-engineer-rust
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/proception-inc-embedded-linux-robotics-software-engineer-rust/

## About the role

This role is for someone who likes being close to the hardware, close to Linux, and close to the robot. You will work across embedded Linux, camera bring-up, real-time sensing, IPC, device drivers, and high-rate robotics runtime systems. Instead of joining a large team to maintain legacy infrastructure, you will directly bring up and improve the systems that make our robotic hands work in the real world.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated ability to build reliable software on embedded Linux systems using C/C++ or Rust
- Strong Linux system programming fundamentals, including threading, IPC, scheduling, memory management, DMA, interrupts, and debugging
- Hands-on experience with embedded camera stacks such as V4L2, Media Controller, libcamera, MIPI CSI-2, device tree, or sensor drivers
- Experience bringing up hardware interfaces such as CSI-2, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, EtherCAT, USB, or PCIe
- Ability to debug real hardware using tools such as gdb, perf, strace, dmesg, ftrace, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes
- Experience building low-latency sensing, perception, actuation, or control pipelines

Tags: Engineering