Firmware Intern

WindBorne Systems · Atlas Engineering

Where: RWC HQ
Posted: Jul 6

WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather models with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons targeting the most critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using the data they collect to generate otherwise unattainable weather intelligence.

Our mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty, and in the process help humanity adapt to climate change, be that predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables. We are building a future in which the planet is instrumented by thousands of our microballoons, eliminating gaps in our understanding of the planet and giving people and businesses the information they need to make critical decisions.

What you'd do

Develop and maintain drivers & low level libraries for new chips, modules, & sensors
Own our custom open source RTOS hardware abstraction layer, Amslah. It has many custom features made for our unique application (I’m excited to tell you about them!) but but requires hardening and architecture refinements as we scale
Push the limits of our custom sensor hardware & calibration infrastructure, ensuring our GSBs are power optimized & survive extreme cold beyond subcomponent specifications.
Work closely with people doing R&D on novel hardware as we seek to improve the accuracy of our meteorological measurements.
Design fault-tolerant systems that can recover gracefully from unexpected conditions
Debug highly non-trivial issues
Experience programming, shipping, and maintaining hardware in a real-world setting.
Must be excited by rapid iteration more than trying to perfectly plan ahead of time
Fluent in C/C++ and Python. Though ideally you ever so slightly look down on software engineers who only write interpreted languages, but you wouldn’t admit this because you are too nice.
Should have experience writing low-level drivers for a number of various chips.