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# Principal Embedded Software Engineer at RISE Robotics

Department: Engineering

**Setup**
: Hybrid

**Location**
: Somerville, Massachusetts

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: staff+

**Posted**
: Mar 23, 2026

## Description

RISE Robotics is hiring a Principal Embedded Software Engineer to develop and enhance embedded software for robotic lifting systems. The role involves designing and maintaining software, integrating it with electrical and mechanical components, developing motion-control algorithms, implementing real-time control and sensor systems, testing and debugging, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams. The position requires at least five years of electromechanical product software development experience in C, C++, and Python, along with motion-control and embedded-communications expertise. It is a hybrid role with four days per week in Somerville, Massachusetts, and includes health, dental, life, disability, equity, retirement, paid time off, and other benefits.

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