Firmware Engineer, Robotics

Quick Facts

Firmware Engineer focused on robotics embedded systems architecture, safety-critical reliability, and hands-on production firmware delivery.

Description

You will define and drive embedded firmware architecture for next-generation robotic hardware, owning foundational decisions across real-time execution, device bring-up, hardware interfaces, fault handling, safety mechanisms, and production readiness. The role requires designing for reliability and diagnosability in safety-critical, high-consequence systems while also writing production-quality firmware when it matters most. The embedded stack uses Rust extensively.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly bring up new hardware and set execution pace for the team
• Lead firmware architecture for embedded systems spanning boot, RTOS/runtime behavior, peripheral control, power management, communications, and field diagnostics
• Define engineering standards for reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability across the firmware stack
• Design and review safety-critical mechanisms, including fault detection, recovery paths, watchdog strategies, redundancy where appropriate, and safe-state behavior
• Build quick, scrappy prototypes when speed of learning matters, then harden the right ideas into production-quality systems
• Partner closely with engineers in hardware, software, and AI research from early prototype through production
• Build rigorous bring-up, validation, and release processes for embedded platforms
• Establish testing strategies across unit, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, stress, and failure-injection testing
• Drive root-cause analysis for subtle hardware, firmware, and system interactions
• Make clear tradeoffs across performance, memory, power, schedule, and safety
• Mentor firmware engineers and help shape a culture of urgency, technical rigor, practical judgment, and high-quality execution

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing firmware in an iterative environment
• Experience building safety-critical or high-consequence systems where failures have meaningful consequences
• Comfort reasoning about risk, diagnosability, and graceful degradation
• Deep embedded fundamentals: interrupts, scheduling, memory layout, buses, DMA, timing behavior, and failure modes
• Strong defensive design instincts for fault containment, validation depth, and post-deployment diagnosability
• Proven experience leading architecture and delivery for complex embedded products shipped to real users or operated in demanding production environments
• Fluency in low-level programming (Rust is heavily used in this embedded stack)
• Ability to balance long-lived architectural correctness with rapid prototyping to learn quickly
• Clear communication across disciplines and the ability to turn ambiguity into sound technical direction

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities