Firmware Engineer, Robotics

Skills

About the Role

You will define and drive the architecture of embedded systems for next-generation robotics hardware. You will own foundational firmware decisions across real-time execution, bring-up, hardware interfaces, fault handling and safety, working as both technical leader and hands-on builder, prototyping quickly and hardening ideas into production firmware.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing firmware in an iterative environment
• Experience leading architecture and delivery for complex embedded products shipped to real users
• Deep fluency in low-level languages such as Rust and real-time constraints
• Understanding of interrupts, scheduling, memory layout, buses, DMA, and timing
• Experience with defensive design, fault containment, and diagnosability
• Clear cross-disciplinary communication
• Heavy use of AI-assisted coding tools

Responsibilities

• Rapidly bring up new hardware and set execution pace
• Lead firmware architecture spanning boot, RTOS/runtime, peripheral control, power management, communications, and field diagnostics
• Define engineering standards for reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability
• Design and review safety-critical mechanisms including fault detection, recovery, watchdogs, and redundancy
• Build quick prototypes and harden them into production systems
• Partner with hardware, software, and AI research engineers
• Build bring-up, validation, and release processes
• Establish testing strategies including hardware-in-the-loop and failure-injection testing
• Drive root-cause analysis for hardware, firmware, and system interactions
• Make tradeoffs across performance, memory, power, schedule, and safety
• Mentor firmware engineers

Benefits

• Equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
• Flexible PTO
• 13+ paid company holidays and company office closures
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Relocation support
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends