Workstream is a mission-driven company building the all-in-one HR, payroll, and hiring platform for managing the hourly workforce. 7 billion hourly workers, making up 80% of the global workforce, but this market has been heavily underserved by technology and deserves better. Workstream has been purpose-built for the hourly workforce from day one so that these businesses and their employees can thrive.

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In addition to our core business, Workstream is home to a small, fast-moving Robotics team focused on advancing the next generation of artificial intelligence and robotics. We partner with a leading AI and robotics company to produce high-quality, large-scale egocentric (first-person) video datasets that help train advanced AI models. Our Robotics team develops scalable data collection and annotation pipelines that enable the efficient creation of high-quality training datasets, helping AI systems better understand human actions, environments, and everyday interactions.

We're also building a new category of connected hardware designed to operate reliably throughout the day in thousands of homes and businesses. By combining cutting-edge data collection, automation, and hardware innovation, this team is helping shape the future of intelligent systems and real-world AI applications. Grow With Us We’re looking for an engineer who moves easily between embedded Linux, RTOS, and bare-metal MCU code, and who is happy where firmware meets hardware.

You will own the software that makes our devices capture, record, and communicate, help bring up new boards and sensors alongside our EEs, and build the tooling a small team needs to move fast. Day in the Life Architect, implement, and test the on-device software that controls recording, sensors, storage, and power, and keeps it running reliably over long sessions. Bring up and debug new hardware alongside our EE team: part selection, interface definition, driver development for new sensor modules, and board bring-up.

Dig into the open technical problems at the core of the device. Prototype the options, measure real behavior, and help decide what we build. Own the device's interface to the rest of the system: the on-device API/SDK and protocols our app and cloud build against, kept clean, documented, and well tested.

Build the tooling and automation for firmware development, test, and calibration, so the team can iterate quickly and scale into production.

Who You Are

Nice To Have

, MIPI CSI-2), DSP/ISP, or video/media pipelines, especially handling multiple simultaneous streams. MCU firmware and low-level bring-up, including bootloaders and an RTOS such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS. Connectivity and protocols such as BLE, Wi-Fi, and USB.

Designing SDKs/APIs that another team consumes. OTA, telemetry, or managing software across a fleet of connected devices. CI/CD and test automation.

Embedded Software Engineer