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# Firmware Engineer

- **Company:** Jobot
- **Location:** Redmond, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $230,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, C (Programming Language), Abstraction Layers, Computing Platforms, Booting (BIOS), C++ (Programming Language), Communications Protocols, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Embedded C, Linux on Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Firmware, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Systems Development Life Cycle, Real-Time Operating Systems, Regression Testing, Systems Integration, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Data Logging, PIC Microcontroller, Build Management
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0335440b-8252-4f08-b338-90315f5dfdff

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or equivalent professional experience
5+ years of firmware or embedded-systems development experience
Strong embedded or systems-level C++ programming experience
Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers or embedded Linux systems
Experience with CAN, SPI, I C, UART, Ethernet or similar interfaces
Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries
Experience delivering production-quality firmware for real-world products
Understanding of reliability, failure modes and defensive system design
Ability to work effectively across firmware, hardware and mechanical engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with robotics, autonomous systems or heavy equipment
Experience developing safety-critical or real-time embedded systems
Familiarity with an RTOS or real-time scheduling concepts
Hardware bring-up and board-level debugging experience
Experience with bootloaders, OTA updates or secure firmware updates
Experience building embedded logging, tracing or telemetry systems
Hardware-in-the-loop testing or automated hardware-validation experience
Experience supporting products deployed in unpredictable or physically demanding environments
Background improving firmware testing, CI/CD or release processes

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and build the embedded systems powering autonomous machines and fleet operations.

You will develop production-quality embedded C++ software that connects computing platforms to sensors, actuators, ECUs and safety systems. This position requires an engineer who can operate comfortably at the boundary between hardware and software and who understands that firmware ultimately determines how a physical machine behaves.

You will own systems from board bring-up and driver development through testing, deployment, observability and field troubleshooting.

What You Will Do
Design and implement firmware for a next-generation embedded hardware platform
Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers and system services
Build interfaces for sensors, actuators, ECUs and other machine components
Work with CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I C, UART and other communication protocols
Develop deterministic real-time and near-real-time control paths
Write clean, efficient and testable embedded C++ code
Implement watchdogs, error handling and fail-safe behavior
Design firmware that remains reliable through hardware faults, communication loss and environmental variability
Build logging, tracing, telemetry and embedded diagnostic capabilities
Lead firmware bring-up for new boards, daughterboards and related hardware
Partner with electrical and mechanical engineers to validate designs and interfaces
Diagnose difficult issues spanning firmware, hardware and system integration
Perform root-cause analysis on failures found during testing or field deployment
Optimize timing, memory consumption and CPU utilization
Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression testing and field validation
Improve firmware CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and development workflows
Establish standards for firmware safety, reliability and maintainability
Mentor other engineers on embedded development and debugging practices


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