What are the responsibilities and job description for the Embedded & Systems Engineer (Pro Audio) position at Grace Design Professional Audio?
About Grace Design
Grace Design is a small Colorado-based company building high-end professional audio equipment used in studios and production environments around the world. We’re known for exceptional sound quality, long-term reliability, and products that hold up for years of real-world use.
What makes Grace different is not just what we build—but how we work together while building it.
We are a small, close-knit, family-style engineering team where collaboration is real, communication is direct, and everyone’s voice matters. Engineers work closely with hardware and software and have direct access to leadership and the founder. There’s no heavy corporate structure—just a tight, trusted team focused on building great products together.
Day to day, the environment is:
- Highly collaborative, low ego, and team-oriented
- Flexible and low-friction (no unnecessary bureaucracy)
- Built on trust, ownership, and shared responsibility
- Balanced with a sustainable pace of work—not burnout culture
We care deeply about both the quality of our products and the quality of the environment we build them in.
Located in the foothills of Colorado, we also benefit from easy access to the mountains and a strong local music community that directly connects to our work.
Role Overview
We are hiring an Embedded & Systems Engineer to help design, build, and maintain the systems behind our professional audio products.
This role sits at the intersection of:
- Embedded Linux systems
- Hardware integration
- FPGA / digital design
- System architecture and product behavior
You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and system-level ownership, ensuring that hardware, firmware, and software all work together seamlessly.
This is a role for someone who enjoys building real systems, debugging across layers, and working in a highly collaborative environment where everyone contributes to the outcome.
What You’ll Do
- Build and develop embedded Linux systems (BSPs, build systems, configuration)
- Bring up new hardware platforms and support board-level integration
- Design and implement C/C software close to hardware
- Interface embedded Linux with FPGA and other hardware systems
- Define system architecture, interfaces, and product behavior
- Debug issues across the full stack (application ↔ Linux ↔ FPGA ↔ hardware)
- Support manufacturing, testing, and field issue resolution
- Participate in design reviews and collaborative engineering discussions
- Contribute ideas and solutions in a small-team, high-trust environment
- Help shape long-term platform direction and technical decisions
- Have high visibility into decisions and product direction
- Meaningful, long-term engineering work (not disposable code)
- Supportive environment with sustainable workload expectations
What We’re Looking For
- 3 years of experience in embedded systems or systems engineering
- Strong C/C experience close to hardware
- Embedded Linux experience (Yocto, BSPs, drivers, or system bring-up)
- Hands-on debugging of hardware/software integration issues
- Ability to take loosely defined problems and turn them into working systems
- Comfortable working in a small, highly collaborative, family-style engineering team
- Strong communication, humility, and willingness to work closely with others
Nice to Have
- FPGA experience (Verilog/SystemVerilog)
- DSP, audio systems, or real-time systems experience
- XMOS or similar architectures
- High-speed digital or hardware design exposure
- Experience in small teams with broad ownership
- Tools: Git, Vivado, Altium, MATLAB
Benefits
- Retirement plan with employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Flexible working hours
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Equity eligibility
Important Note
This role is best suited for engineers who enjoy building and debugging real systems in a collaborative, hands-on environment. You should be comfortable working across software, hardware, and FPGA boundaries while contributing as part of a small, tight-knit team where everyone works closely together to solve problems.