Who is Flock?

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 $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B 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.

The Opportunity 

We are seeking a Staff Wireless Software Engineer with expertise in Wi-Fi technology to enhance our integrated connectivity solutions for NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) and through-wall drone operations.

In this role, you will take full ownership of the Wi-Fi stack, integrating firmware and RF capabilities to optimize performance. You will lead unit testing for the integration process and develop user-space and driver features to achieve our connectivity goals.

You will work closely with RF, systems, device software, and cloud engineering teams to design and refine cutting-edge solutions.

This position requires partial on-site presence at our Engineering Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Skillset 

• 3-5 years or higher with Hands on experience in user space and kernel driver in 802.11 recent standards

• B.Sc or  degree in computer Science or higher

• Experience in C, C++ and Python is required 

• Effective communication skills (verbal, written and presentation)

• Excellent teamwork skills with proven ability to work with a cross-functional team and drive for timely project success

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Qualcomm WiFi Networking code base and software release.

• Knowledge in other wireless standards mostly 3GPP or CV2X.

• Knowledge and experience with commercial connectivity devices to include Mobile and IoT devices 

• Experience with wireless products and general software stack of these products

• Familiarity with databricks, Snowflakes or similar data base software

Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 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 NPI Engineer at Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Learn about Flock products and how to use them in the lab. 

• Working on establishing a test set-up that can facilitate a video stream from a transmitter over wifi to a receiver and create a test framework. 

The First 60 Days 

• Architecture and automate an RVR over this set-up. Establish metrics.

• Develop connectivity interface between cloud and a wifi based radio for drone operation 

90 Days & Beyond 

• Develop user space level features that are required for optimizing video and latency performance over a noisy environment. 

• Complete the 90 days with a demonstration of the automated set-up and test and evaluation that facilitates RVR and statistics extraction at a basic level. 

The Interview Process