About the position
Our mission is to improve the performance of athletes and teams, which we do by engineering the premier technology platform for sport. We've been at the forefront of sports technology and science since 2006 - we don't just work in the sporting industry, we are actively changing its future. Our solutions are designed to help athletes and coaches 'play smart' in a world where 1% can literally mean the difference between winning and losing. We work with over 4,400 teams around the world, empowering coaches, managers, and trainers in premier teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, EPL, AFL, NRL, NCAA and more. We provide the information they need to optimise athletes’ health, game-day readiness, and performance, as well as in-game tactics. Our solutions include wearable technology, video analytics, and athlete monitoring solutions, and we are passionate about helping sports organizations at all levels to better scout, recruit, teach, and win. We are looking for a talented Embedded Applications Engineer with a drive to build quality products. This is a unique role that bridges traditional embedded systems with modern containerized edge computing. Based in Boston, you will be a key player in the Research & Development team that designs the hardware that Catapult is famous for. At first, you will work predominantly with the newly acquired Perch team on their Camera System, with opportunities to expand beyond just that product line. You will be working with the most cutting-edge technology on a real-time, edge computer vision system, including AI acceleration and 3D object tracking. Reporting to a Senior Director of Engineering, the primary responsibility of the Embedded Applications Engineer is to develop software solutions for the elite sports industry. You will be responsible for the development cycle and ensuring that our products have a high level of quality.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain user-space applications on embedded Linux (ARM) for camera devices.
- Integrate 3D Cameras, AI accelerators, and embedded peripherals (I2C/SMBus, SPI/UART, GPIO/PWM).
- Profile and optimize CPU, memory, I/O performance, and power usage on embedded platforms.
- Configure Linux services (systemd), udev rules, and basic kernel modules / device-tree settings.
- Containerize services (Docker) with direct hardware device access, and host integration.
- Develop and ship OTA updates to thousands of devices running in field.
- Contribute to the IoT / observability platform.
- Support bring-up, lab debugging, and manufacturing test/provisioning.
- Support NPI with manufacturing: provisioning scripts, golden images.
- Work in multidisciplinary teams and interface with other engineers in our team and across various domains.
- Influence the hardware design of future products.
- Document your work in a shared knowledge base platform.
- Work with test engineers to resolve issues.
Requirements
- Formal qualifications in electronics or software engineering.
- At least 5 years of software development experience.
- Knowledge of Linux, particularly on embedded systems.
- Demonstrated experience programming with Python and C/C++.
- Docker containerization experience: image slimming, volume strategy.
- Experience developing and profiling high-performance (latency / throughput) software.
- Ability to reason about and debug complex and distributed systems across hardware, OS, and containerized applications.
- Experience with Git code management is highly desired.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with video processing systems, OpenCV.
- Microcontroller programming.
- Hardware troubleshooting: confident with DMM/oscilloscope/logic analyzer.
Benefits
- Work with some of the most ambitious and intelligent people in an exciting industry.
- Constructive, open and honest communication environment.
- Opportunity to work across multiple nationalities and cultures.
- Unlimited opportunity to grow and improve.
- Satisfaction of supporting successful teams and athletes.
