Firmware Engineer
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead board bring-up for microcontrollers and infotainment SoCs, develop bootloaders, and customize embedded operating systems. You will enable kernels and drivers, optimize performance and power, debug hardware-dependent issues, and support integration and validation on target hardware.
Requirements
- Firmware or low-level embedded systems development
- Board bring-up for MCUs or SoCs
- FreeRTOS or QNX
- Linux kernel or Android platform development
- Bootloaders
- C
- C++
- Early boot debugging
- Power management
- Boot optimization
- Performance tuning
- Schematics
- Datasheets
Responsibilities
- Lead board bring-up for new hardware platforms
- Develop and debug bootloaders and early boot software
- Bring up and customize FreeRTOS, QNX, Linux, and Android on new boards
- Enable Linux kernels and device drivers for custom hardware
- Optimize boot time, startup, runtime performance, and power usage
- Debug hardware and software issues using JTAG, logic analyzers, and low-level logs
- Support system integration, validation, and bring-up on target hardware