Staff Software Engineer, Full-Stack & Firmware in South San Francisco, California at Mammoth DS, Inc

Atlas Data Storage is charting the future of information storage by pioneering DNA data storage technology. We're a newly funded, high-growth startup at the intersection of biotechnology and computer science, tackling some of the most complex, long-term data challenges in the world. We're looking for an exceptional Staff Software Engineer to join our core engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to apply your full-stack expertise and low-level programming knowledge to build the systems that will make biological data storage a commercial reality.

About the Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be an essential member of our engineering team. You'll help architect, design, and implement high-performance software across our stack.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing high-performance systems capable of handling very large data payload while ensuring end-to-end data integrity.
• Help developing software running our highly custom DNA data storage platform
• Working closely with hardware, electrical and chemistry teams to help define requirements and specifications.
• Architecting and implementing using languages such as C, C++ or Rust.
• Bringing expertise in low-level programming to develop firmware meeting strict timing and performance requirements.

Required Skills:

• 12+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience in a Staff-level or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
• Expertise in broad set of languages such as C, C++, rust, typescript or python.
• Deep, demonstrable understanding of memory management and allocation strategies across multiple languages and runtimes.
• Proven ability to write performant, low-latency, and highly optimized code, particularly when dealing with very large data payloads (multi-gigabyte to terabyte scale).
• Experience designing and implementing firmware and working with high-speed buses (SPI, 1G/10G Ethernet, USB…).
• Knowledge of low-level technologies such as real-time operating systems, dma controllers, axi bus and cpu pipelining.

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience working directly with hardware development, bring-up, and troubleshooting.
• Front-end development (typescript, React or similar frameworks)
• Understanding of FPGA and ASIC integration
• Familiarity with data storage technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data storage and deployment infrastructure.
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.