My job specifically? Experience with microcontroller programming, as well as software development in general. Familiarity with linux. It helps to have a decent understanding of physics and mathematics. I myself studied computer science in school, and I think that foundation helps me to write more elegant solutions to certain problems than I would know how to do otherwise.

I seem to be pretty good at drilling down into complex problems and finding relatively simple solutions. I am also pretty good at pushing back on things when they don't pass my smell test, and am willing to crack eggs as needed. Those are skills I practiced quite a bit in my solar car racing days. It's the sort of thing that many engineers struggle with, and are often afraid to do. In a good organization, though, it's the sort of behavior that others respect and appreciate. It helps to have an optimistic, easy going attitude.

Look at our career site, https://flyzipline.com/careers/ (we are hiring!) Even if you do not see a perfect match, consider applying -- most teams value good engineering skills higher than a perfect match of some technology lists.

thanks! I’ve been doing full stack web dev for a few years now and thinking of switching to something new - maybe embedded

Cool! People working in embedded tend to have a wide variety of backgrounds. Detailed knowledge of various internet protocols would be quite relevant and valuable. Have you worked in any compiled languages much?

I’ve done some C with Arduinos before and a bit of rust. You wouldn’t happen to have any internship type of opportunities, would you? or maybe some one-off tasks that I can be asked to solve, given some basic direction