Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.
Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.
Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded.
We have raised over $380M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $3B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.
Flock Safety is looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer to become a pivotal part of our Device Firmware Team, a dynamic group renowned for its exceptional engineering talent. We are responsible for all of the code running on thousands of solar-powered devices that are at the heart of our mission, enabling the seamless capture and upload of millions of images and streaming video content to the cloud daily. This role will be focused on developing new connectivity features for existing and next generation platforms. You will work with key internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure deliverables meet our development and design bar, develop customizations in the drivers and radio layer, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver quality software and firmware.
- A Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 8+ years experience
- Proven track record of working with a large fleet of connected devices, a good understanding of different phases of their lifecycle and related challenges
- Development experience within embedded systems/firmware design at multiple stages of the product life cycle (prototyping, pre-production engineering validation, release and scaling)
- Experience with modem bring-up within Linux or Android ecosystems
- Experience with Android Radio Interface Layer (RIL)
- Experience with LTE, different service providers, e-SIM
- Experience with Android system architecture (HAL, Android Linux Kernel, Android Build System, etc)
- Proficient in C and C++
- Comfortable working in a Linux-based development environment, including custom tooling, containers, Gerrit/Git, etc
- Experience with Qualcomm chipset devices is a plus
- Experience with customizing “Qualcomm Proprietary” subsystems(BP) is a big plus!
- Experience with battery-powered/power constrained devices is a plus
- Experience with ARM Cortex Microcontroller (NRF5x, STM32x, etc.) is a plus
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, memory allocation, file system, networking, storage, subsystem architecture)
- Experience bringing up Linux Kernel drivers for common peripheral bus technologies including SPI, I2C, UART, is a big plus
- Experience with Kotlin and Android apps development
We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a at Flock Safety.
- Learn about the firmware software development lifecycle and tools, get your development environment set up and your build server up and running
- Improve observability of fleet LTE behavior by reporting and monitoring network and modem metrics
- Make improvements to device connectivity (location, carrier, bandwidth, reliability)
- Contribute to our device e-SIM development efforts
- Identify the gaps in antennas, radio layer implementation, modems and their drivers, and SIM management in the current connectivity solutions in Flock devices
- Collaborate with partners to establish a connectivity roadmap
We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way.
💰: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $150,000-$180,000 as well as stock options
🌴: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
⚕️: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
👪: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
🍼 We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility.
🧠 All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
💖 We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
💸 Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
$150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
$250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area).
🐾 We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.
What We Do
Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep your community safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale – including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies – to shape a safer future together. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by more than 3,000 communities across the country. Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time, and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter.
