Software Engineer, Firmware
Software Engineering – Kitchener, Ontario, Canada – Full Time

About you:

You are an experienced embedded software engineer with a passion for crafting elegant solutions to complex problems. You know how to maximize performance and functionality on devices where memory, code space, and CPU cycles are precious commodities. You enjoy working directly with hardware – oscilloscopes, JTAG debuggers, and logic analyzers are your go-to tools. You understand the importance of reliability and determinism in firmware, and how to achieve it in practice. You love working cross-functionally in an environment where engineers, designers, and research scientists come together to create compelling new technologies. You’re excited about wearable technologies and want to use your unique skills to shape future generations of our smartglasses and accessory products.

About our team:

We’re the Embedded Software team, and we deliver the firmware and lowest level software that drive our smartglasses and accessory products. Our team consists of developers with experience in creating robust, reliable software that runs on a wide variety of embedded processors. Our software engineers have expertise in areas such as sensors, digital signal processing, power management, RTOS kernel design, audio, power management, wireless, and display technologies. Our team works closely with other engineering teams (electrical engineering, advanced R&D, and various software teams) to find solutions to complex problems.

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Bonus points for:

Feel like you can’t tick all the boxes above? If you have some of the skills and experience that we’re looking for and are willing to use your talent to learn the rest, we encourage you to apply!

Why North:

Day-to-day, we challenge each other to constantly raise the bar, encourage unconventional thinking to achieve innovative breakthroughs, and are passionately committed to surpassing our goals. We advocate a healthy lifestyle and promote continuous learning in a flexible work environment. Most of all, we set visionary goals, and we’re passionate about building the best, most impactful products that people will love.

About us:

North, formerly Thalmic Labs, builds products that change the way we see and engage with our world. North’s latest product, Focals, are custom-built glasses with a display only the wearer can see. Focals let you see texts, get turn-by-turn directions, check the weather, request an Uber, ask Alexa, and more — seamlessly and immediately. Founded in 2012, North has grown to a world-leading team of engineers, researchers, designers, and creators committed to building a future where technology is there when you need it and gone when you don’t, hidden by design.