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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer - **Company:** After School Matters, Inc. - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Mobile Broadband Modems, LTE (Telecommunication), Build Automation, Bash Shell, Serialization, Datasheets, Software Debugging, Firmware, FreeRTOS, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Radio-Frequency Identification, Public Key Infrastructure, X.509, Real-Time Operating Systems, Transport Layer Security, Backend, U-Boot, GNSS - **Published:** August 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://hireventures.applytojob.com/apply/NasOugCir3/Principal-Embedded-Firmware-Engineer?source=GS ## About the Role * Strong professional in embedded systems, infrastructure, performance-sensitive, or similarly demanding software. * Substantial hands-on microcontroller firmware experience. * Experience with RTOS-based systems, interrupts, peripheral drivers, persistent state, and resource-constrained devices. * Ability to bring up and debug hardware directly from datasheets, register maps, and protocol specifications. * Experience supporting embedded product through production and after deployment. * Understanding of firmware release safety, OTA updates, device recovery, and field-failure investigation. * Strong bench-debugging skills. * Experience taking ownership of a large, evolving codebase and improving it without stopping delivery. * Sound engineering judgment and the ability to communicate clearly across firmware, hardware, backend, product, and operations teams. Preferred experience ## Description We are looking for a Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer to own the CR-One firmware platform and the tools used to build, provision, release, update, and support it. You will take ownership of an in-production system, develop a deep understanding of its architecture, keep the deployed fleet healthy, and extend it for future products and use cases. You will work closely with hardware, backend, product, manufacturing, technical services, and external engineering partners. What you will work on * Embedded Rust device architecture * NFC RFID * Cellular, BLE, USB, and GNSS * Security and device lifecycle * Protocols and fleet tooling Responsibilities * Take technical ownership of the CR-One firmware platform and its build, flash, provisioning, release, and update pipelines. * Safely extend and improve firmware running on devices in customer and partner environments. * Own the OTA release lifecycle, including signing, staged deployment, rollback, health validation, and incident response. * Diagnose firmware and hardware problems using logs, telemetry, serial traces, and controlled reproduction. * Improve reproducible builds, release documentation, and operational visibility. * Maintain backward compatibility across firmware versions, device configurations, and shared wire protocols. * Support factory programming, provisioning, production testing, hardware revisions, and manufacturing failure analysis. * Partner with backend and dashboard engineers on device configuration, telemetry, fleet health, and remote support. * Help define the firmware architecture for future CR-One generations. * Improve the system incrementally while continuing to deliver customer and partner capabilities., Experience in some of the following areas is valuable, but we do not expect candidates to have worked with every technology: * Embedded Rust or Rust on ESP-IDF. * ESP32, ESP-IDF, FreeRTOS, or comparable embedded platforms. * LTE-M, NB-IoT, Quectel, u-blox, or other cellular modem integrations. * MQTT, TLS, mutual TLS, PKI, X.509, and certificate enrollment. * NFC & RFID protocols, including ISO 14443, ISO 15693, MIFARE, DESFire, or NFC-V. * USB device stacks, HID, CDC, TinyUSB, BLE, and GNSS. * Secure boot, flash encryption, hardware provisioning, and protected key storage. * Differential or delta OTA systems. * Binary and JSON serialization formats. * Python, Bash, firmware release tooling, cross-compilation, and build automation. * MQTT-broker, or fleet-management experience. Why Join CI Solutions For more than 30 years, we have built our business by earning the trust of our customers, partners, and employees. We value long-term relationships, we approach our work with integrity and take pride in delivering solutions that customers rely on every day. We are a small, agile, and fast-paced company that offers employees the opportunity to take ownership, drive improvements, work collaboratively across departments, and make a meaningful impact without layers of bureaucracy. In this role, you will own the CR-One firmware platform and the decisions you make will directly shape how current and future devices are built, deployed and supported. 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