Senior Firmware Engineer, Robotics

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Architecting and developing production-grade firmware for actuator controllers, sensor interfaces, power systems, and communication devices
• Owning firmware architecture across bootloaders, BSPs, hardware abstraction layers, RTOS services, device drivers, diagnostics, and firmware update mechanisms
• Bringing up and validating new PCBs, including peripheral initialization, clock and memory configuration, interrupt handling, DMA, and low-level hardware interfaces
• Implementing deterministic, real-time firmware on bare-metal and RTOS platforms, with careful consideration of timing, concurrency, memory, compute, and power constraints
• Developing and optimizing motor-control firmware, including current, torque, velocity, and position control loops, encoder interfaces, PWM generation, and fault handling
• Implementing and maintaining real-time communication stacks, including EtherCAT, CAN/CAN FD, SPI, I2C, and UART
• Designing firmware safety and reliability mechanisms, including fault detection, watchdogs, recovery paths, safe-state behavior, and graceful degradation
• Building observability and field-diagnostic capabilities that make firmware behavior measurable, traceable, and debuggable

Job requirements

• 5+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience in robotics, automotive, industrial automation, or complex consumer electronics, including experience shipping production-deployed products
• Strong C and C++ programming skills in resource-constrained bare-metal and RTOS environments
• Deep understanding of embedded systems fundamentals, including interrupts, DMA, timers, scheduling, concurrency, memory layout, boot sequences, and real-time behavior
• Experience developing firmware across multiple modern MCU families, such as ARM Cortex-M, TI C2000, STM32, or Nordic nRF; breadth across vendors and architectures is valued over specialization in a single platform
• Hands-on experience developing motor-control or actuator firmware, including FOC, current or torque control, velocity control, position control, or similar real-time control systems
• Driver-level experience with embedded communication protocols, including EtherCAT, CAN/CAN FD, SPI, I2C, and UART
• Demonstrated experience with board bring-up, peripheral-driver development, and debugging across the firmware and hardware boundary
• Proficiency with embedded debugging and laboratory tools, including JTAG/SWD debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers