Firmware Engineer (Remote, US - Austin, Seattle or San Francisco Areas)

Listed hiring locations are the Austin, TX, Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CA areas, so candidates should be based in or near one of these metros. This role is with a company building connected IoT products and cloud platforms for businesses that run physical operations such as fleets, construction, logistics and manufacturing. You will write firmware for a line of battery-powered sensors, Linux-based gateways and connected cameras that are deployed in large numbers with industrial and enterprise customers. The work covers the hardware-software boundary from board bring-up through to devices operating reliably in the field for years. The company is recently public and hiring for a growing engineering organization.

What you'll do

• Take part in hardware design reviews, helping select processors, memory, and sensor combinations, and validate those choices with prototypes.
• Bring up new boards and prototypes, configuring I/O and debugging interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART and BLE.
• Build and maintain low-level software layers, including peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, device firmware updates, and power and connectivity management.
• Optimize firmware for low power consumption on battery-powered devices.
• Work with product, cloud, mobile and quality engineers so device data arrives accurately and is useful to end users.
• Write design documents and code reviews that help raise the engineering bar across the team.

What you need

• At least 2 years of experience building firmware for resource-constrained systems that shipped to customers.
• Strong C programming skills, including comfort reading linker maps, stack traces and memory dumps.
• Experience with bare-metal or RTOS development (such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS), including scheduling, memory and timing decisions.
• Hands-on board bring-up experience and proficiency with low-level interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, ADC).
• Comfort using oscilloscopes and other bench instruments to debug hardware and software together.
• Ability to work across hardware, firmware and cloud teams and write clearly.

Applicants must be based in: United States.

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