Staff Firmware Engineer
Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
Defenseonsitestaff$220k–$292k
At a glance
Highlights
- Develop low-level firmware for systems operating on land, sea, and air.
- Build core technology powering products like Ghost, Roadrunner and Dive-XL.
- Take full ownership of embedded firmware projects from design to completion.
What they offer
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Comprehensive top-tier benefits package
Ideal candidate
Veteran embedded engineer with 10+ years building complex systems who loves owning hardware-adjacent problems end-to-end, mentoring others, and moving fast to field real capability for customers.
Requirements
- BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
- 10+ years of experience in firmware/embedded software development, with a focus on embedded systems
- Expert level C coding ability for embedded systems
- Demonstrated success creating complex MCU projects that communicate between multiple boards or systems
- Broad experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)
- Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
- Experience developing firmware in bare-metal and/or RTOS environments
- Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
- Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
- Extensive experience with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities
Lab profile
About Anduril
Defense technology company building autonomous systems for military missions.
What they build
- Lattice OS
- Ghost
- Anvil
Known for
- Autonomous defense systems
- AI-powered command and control
- Rapid hardware-software iteration
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California
- Backed by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz
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