DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to accelerate R&D team engineering productivity. Ensure the production environment is available and will scale through effective monitoring and feedback mechanisms. Create and manage automation to meet service-level objectives. Provide flexible, innovative technologies and services to verify correct system behaviors from test through deploy. Be able to separate test design and implementation: allow SW and Algo/System designers to concentrate on developing test requirements, test planning, and test case design, while test designers deploy and execute automated SW build and test scripts to implement an application-independent testing framework that both technical and non-technical testers can use.
This role operates closely with SW and HW development teams. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively see what needs to be done.
- Production SaaS CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.
- Monitoring of SaaS infrastructure.
- Prepare web-based operational reports, populate dashboards, and create alerts.
- Python development.
- Design quality gates and develop test automation tools.
- Help triage production issues and assist engineering peers.
- Identify and record bugs.
- Strong knowledge of Github Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab, or any other CI system.
- Strong knowledge of Terraform and AWS Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of Python and Linux (experience in other programming languages will be considered as a plus, with a strong preference for C/C++).
- Shell scripting.
- Development experience with Linux platforms.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- Fluency in English.
- BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
- Hands-on experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes is a plus.
- MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- Experience with HTML5, CSS, web services (SOAP and REST), XML.
- Experience with test frameworks like Robot and JMeter.
- Experience with embedded RTOS or embedded Linux systems.
- Ability to interface with Business Management and customers directly.
Backend Software Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer with practical experience building great software. You will help to create web services that deliver a highly-scalable, 3D location/positioning platform. You should have at least 7 years or more of experience as a Backend engineer. Hands-on experience working with a cloud platform, preferably AWS, is required. Experience building commercially-deployed software is also necessary. In your role, you will provide design and development expertise using best practices including unit testing, containerization, and robust utilization of telemetry to monitor, support, and improve features you create.
This role operates closely with Embedded/Edge SW and HW and business development teams. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively see what needs to be done.
- Design, code and work within AWS to build backend services.
- Code in Python to support customer features related to 3D indoor positioning and IoT devices.
- Recommend and develop methods facilitating development off cloud environment but deployable via Terraform in the cloud environment.
- Understand architecture design models, Swagger OpenAPI Specs, and REST/WebSocket service delivery models.
- Identify and champion proposals to improve development processes, reduce system cost, and improve system quality.
- Be a self-starter, own your work from concept to deployment.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Development experience with Python is a must (experience in other programming languages will be considered as a plus, with a strong preference for C/C++ and Java).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (API Gateway, Flink, Lambdas, DynamoDB, Timestream, Cognito, IoT Core). Other cloud experience is a plus.
- Experience with cloud deployment using Terraform.
- Experience with OpenAPI.
- Experience with IoT device management.
- Experience with Github, CI/CD, and Pyunit/Pytest.
- Ability to interact with the team in English (written and spoken) and strong communication skills.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- The ability to work in an Agile team based in the US Pacific Timezone.
- BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- 7+ years of web services development experience.
- Experience with distributed data persistence and processing systems.
- Experience with the JVM and a JVM language like Java or Scala.
- Ability to lead a system design process including defining requirements, estimating scale of data, defining APIs, describing system components, and trade-offs of the end product.
- Experience with microservice architecture frameworks.
- Development experience with Linux/Unix platform.
- Capability in debugging complex software applications, performance tuning and profiling.
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Jira, and experience using version control systems such as Git.
- MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- Experience in ML workflow, including labeling, data preparation, feature engineering, training, tuning, hosting and monitoring.
- Knowledge and prior experience in Kubernetes environment, a great plus.
- Experience on ElasticSearch and Kibana platforms.
- Some web design/development and/or software application development experience (web or mobile).
- Experience with HTML5, CSS, Javascript, web services (SOAP and REST), XML.
- Ability to also interface with Business Management and customers directly.
Junior Embedded Software Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer with an aptitude towards developing robust, high volume embedded software solutions. You will be writing applications on IoT devices that provide 3D indoor positioning using RF and communicate to cloud applications for a Bay Area, well-funded startup. You should have at least 1 year of working experience as a software engineer. Hands-on experience working with embedded Linux, or an RTOS is required. You should be comfortable with microcontroller peripheral control buses such as SPI, UART, I2C, JTAG, etc., with at least some basic knowledge of device drivers, boot loaders, and communication protocol stacks. Signal processing experience and experience with DSPs is highly desired. This role is fast paced, supporting a variety of embedded platforms with the opportunity to be a key member on design and bring up a new embedded board for 3D positioning.
This role operates closely with Research, Hardware and business development teams. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively solve problems and complete mission objectives.
- Work with the hardware team to test, verify, and prototype new hardware functionality. Design, code, and work on IoT devices.
- Develop and implement algorithms utilizing peripheral I/O components (such as accelerometer) to improve positioning accuracy.
- Develop software for IoT device provisioning, diagnostics, and telemetry.
- Identify and champion proposals to reduce system cost, and improve system quality.
- Be a self-starter, own your work from concept to deployment.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Development experience with C/C++ and Python (experience in other programming languages, such as Rust, is desirable).
- Experience developing on embedded RTOSes is required. Experience on “bare metal” platforms is desired.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- The ability to work onsite in Belmont, CA.
- BSc degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related subject.
- Experience with ISM band wireless devices such as wireless access points or Bluetooth/Zigbee devices.
- Linux experience for running and developing test scripts.
- Experience with JTAG, use of oscilloscopes, voltage/current meters, and other hardware development tools.
- Ability to read electrical schematics and electrical component datasheets.
- Experience using version control systems such as Git.
- Experience with AWS IoT Core (Authentication, Registry, Shadow, etc.).
- Experience with FPGA development (VHDL, Verilog).
- Experience developing and modifying the bootloader (UBoot).
- Experience developing device drivers.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with practical experience building robust, high-volume software solutions. You will be writing applications on embedded, IoT devices that provide 3D indoor positioning using RF and communicate to cloud applications for a Bay Area, well-funded startup. You should have at least 7 years or more of experience as a software engineer. Hands-on experience working with embedded Linux, OpenWRT, QNX, VXWorks, or other RTOS is required. You should be comfortable with microcontroller peripheral control buses (such as SPI, UART, I2C, JTAG, etc.) with a basic knowledge of device drivers, boot loaders, and communication protocol stacks. Signal processing experience and experience with DSPs and FPGAs are highly desired. This role is fast-paced, supporting a variety of embedded platforms, with the opportunity to be a key member in designing and bringing up a new embedded board for 3D positioning.
This role operates closely with Research, Hardware, and business development teams. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively solve problems and complete mission objectives.
- Design, code, and work on IoT devices.
- Develop and implement algorithms utilizing peripheral I/O components (such as accelerometer) to improve positioning accuracy.
- Develop software for IoT device provisioning, diagnostics, and telemetry.
- Identify and champion proposals to improve development processes, reduce system cost, and improve system quality.
- Be a self-starter, own your work from concept to deployment.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Development experience with C/C++ and Python (experience in other programming languages, such as Rust, is desirable).
- Experience developing on embedded RTOSes is required. Experience on “bare metal” platforms is desired.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- The ability to work in an Agile team based in the US Pacific Timezone.
- BSc or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related subject.
- Experience with ISM band wireless devices such as wireless access points or Bluetooth/Zigbee devices.
- Linux experience for running and developing test scripts.
- Experience with JTAG, logic analyzers, use of oscilloscopes, and other hardware development tools.
- Strong debugging and analytical skills for embedded platforms.
- Experience with board bring-up.
- Ability to read electrical schematics and electrical component datasheets.
- Experience using version control systems such as Git.
- Experience with AWS IoT Core (Authentication, Registry, Shadow, etc.).
- Experience with FPGA development (VHDL, Verilog).
- Experience with PCB design and/or board bring-up.
- Experience developing device drivers.
Frontend Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a Frontend Software Engineer with practical experience building great software. You will help to create the user interface delivering a highly-scalable, 3D location/positioning platform. You should have at least 7 years or more of experience as a frontend user interface developer. Experience building commercially-deployed software is also necessary. In your role, you will provide design and development expertise using best practices to build web and mobile user interfaces with ReactJS, React-Native, NodeJS, and Flutter.
This role operates closely with the backend software team and business development team. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively see what needs to be done, and get it done.
- Design, code and work ReactJS to build out our frontend web applications.
- Develop in React-Native and/or Flutter to build our new mobile application.
- Work with REST interfaces and WebSockets to create both customer and site setup/provisioning applications.
- Understand architecture design models, Swagger OpenAPI Specs, Postman, and REST/WebSocket service delivery models.
- Identify and champion proposals to improve development processes, reduce system cost, and improve system quality.
- Be a self-starter, own your work from concept to deployment.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Development experience with ReactJS is a must.
- Development experience with React-Native or Flutter (preferably both) is a must.
- Development experience with NodeJS for prototyping is desired.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (Cognito, Cloud Map API, Amplify, Pinpoint) is desired. Other cloud experience is a plus.
- Experience creating/using automatic mobile delivery pipelines is highly desired (Xcode, Fastlane, CircleCI, etc.).
- Experience developing unit tests for Javascript (Jest, Mocha, etc.).
- Experience with Github, CI/CD.
- Ability to interact with the team in English (written and spoken) and strong communication skills.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- The ability to work in an Agile team based in the US Pacific Time Zone with some overlap.
- BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
- Experience with microservice architecture frameworks.
- Development experience with Linux/Unix platform.
- Capability in debugging complex software applications, performance tuning and profiling.
- Experience using configuration management tools such as Jira, and experience using version control systems such as Git.
Senior Electronic Engineer
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a Senior Electronic Engineer to assist in the development, manufacturing, test, and delivery of hardware components for our positioning system. You will be responsible for the digital, analog, RF and power circuits, test measurements, microcontrollers, low current operation, batteries, mechanical design and assembly, manufacturing, field testing, PCB layout, schematic capture, sustaining engineering, and more. Your work will require collaboration across our team (including contractors) – being involved with all aspects of taking a product from concept to field deployment and fulfilling our customer requirements – and dreams.
- Bring up new designs, test PCBAs, program microcontrollers, and develop and operate ATE systems.
- Review designs, assist with board bring up, assemble, and test devices and systems.
- Analyze and understand full system requirements.
- Specify and select components, enclosures, antennas, cables, and other hardware in coordination with other team members and vendors.
- Certifications, DVT, environmental, and HALT.
- Collect test data and write comprehensive, understandable reports.
- Create and maintain system documentation.
- BS degree in EE or higher.
- Experience with collecting and storing data and documentation in Google Drive.
- Competent in use and operation of Windows PC OS, Linux, Microsoft Office, Google docs, etc.
- Extensive use of Altium (prefered) or similar CAD.
- Electronics experience – troubleshooting, debugging, repairing (down to the component level) as a professional.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken).
- Competent in Python and/or C programming language and IDE.
- Soldering and board rework skills.
- Other CAD tool exposure – AutoDesk, Cadence, SolidWorks, Allegro, KiCAD, etc.
Test Automation Engineer (SDT/SQA)
At ZaiNar, we’re leveraging patented innovations using software-defined radios and advanced signal processing to build revolutionary new products in Positioning, Navigation, and Timing. Our imaginative team has developed the world’s most precise network time synchronization and distribution capabilities – wirelessly syncing to sub-nanosecond accuracy. We’re solving leading-edge problems in RF location tracking and network communications. Our initial target market is asset tracking in dynamic industrial environments ($10B+), and the opportunities beyond that are endless. ZaiNar already complies with release 16 of 3GPP standards for 5G, to enable ZaiNar location tracking for any 5G-NR device without hardware changes. ZaiNar is VC-backed by tier 1 funds including Softbank, and has graduated from multiple accelerator programs including StartX, Alchemist, and Plug and Play.
Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace, where the best idea wins is, important to us. So, come join a curious, collaborative, and forward-thinking team, where everyone has the freedom to shape their own future, our company‘s, and the world’s – one nanosecond at a time.
We are seeking a talented Test Automation Engineer with an aptitude towards developing robust, highly rigorous test automation solutions for our 3D locationing service platform.You will be writing & testing applications on IoT devices that provide 3D indoor positioning using RF and communicate to cloud applications for a Bay Area, well-funded startup. You should have 5 years of experience as a Quality Assurance (QA) Test Automation Engineer. Hands on experience with manual testing, developing and executing automated test scripts using Automated Testing Tools and frameworks.
This role operates closely with Software, Hardware and business development teams, while reporting to the Quality Engineering Manager. The successful individual must be self-motivated and have the ability to proactively solve problems and complete mission objectives.
- Ability to work independently to deliver QA automation solutions to our team using Agile methodology (sprint planning, backlog and story planning).
- Day-to-day responsibility of conducting testing efforts in assigned areas of UI stability testing, new feature testing, and verifying existing functionalities.
- Communicate with Engineering team members and end-users to provide timely and accurate information, status updates, and bugs/blockers.
- Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining testing standards.
- Design and implement an effective, best-of-breed solution to automate, capture, collate, store, and maintain real-time test data for validation, progress, and performance in change delivery.
- Working closely with our product partners to help estimate the team’s backlog and define stories needed to deliver QA automation solutions.
- Minimum 5 years of experience with hands-on automation testing, developing, and executing automated test scripts using Automated Testing Tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Pytest, Appium, Playwright, etc.
- Extensive experience with Agile development (preferably SAFe), / Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology, or test case automation.
- Strong technical expertise in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Selectors and Xpath.
- Proficient problem-solving skills and ability to rapidly learn unfamiliar processes.
- Development experience with Python, Perl, Bash, or other scripting languages for developing test automation.
- Experience with test case management and planning software such as Testrail, Zephyr, TestLink, etc.
- Experience integrating test automation with Github or Jenkins.
- Knowledge of mobile application deployment including code signing with tools like FastLane, GitHub Actions, and TestFlight.
- Knowledge of statistical practices and how to utilize statistics to measure release quality.
- Ability to self-manage issues/programs of varying complexity and spur business goals forward.
- Interpersonal skills and appreciation of other people's work discipline within a startup environment.
- The ability to work US Pacific Timezone hours, with occasional testing coverage that overlaps into Asia Time Zones.
- Ability to forcefully advocate for your ideas in a respectful manner while soliciting feedback and other opinions.
- BSc or MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related subject.
- Linux, Python,and Bash experience for running and developing test scripts.
- Strong debugging and analytical skills for computer platforms, within any Automated Testing Tool platform.