Firmware Engineer

Highlights

• Own real-time firmware closing control loops on Asimov humanoid robot.
• Ship code to real robots and open-source firmware for community.
• Bring up new boards from first power-on to controllable subsystem.

Ideal candidate

Hands-on embedded builder with 3+ years shipping real-world products who lives at the hardware-software boundary. You love bringing up boards, measuring timing, and seeing your code make a humanoid stand up and walk.

Requirements

• 3 or more years of hands-on firmware or embedded software experience on products that ship and run in the real world
• Strong C and C++ in resource-constrained, real-time environments, plus Python for tooling, test automation, and calibration scripts
• Practical embedded Linux experience: kernel and driver work, device trees, cross-compilation toolchains, and a build system such as Yocto or Buildroot
• Solid grounding in real-time systems: interrupt latency, scheduling, jitter, priority inversion, and the discipline to measure timing rather than assume it
• Deep familiarity with hardware interfaces including SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, and camera interfaces such as MIPI CSI-2 or GMSL
• Comfort reading schematics and datasheets, and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, and bus analyzers
• Strong communication skills to drive alignment across electrical, mechanical, and controls teams