Firmware Engineer

• Firmware Architecture & Design: Design, develop, and maintain firmware for embedded systems, including bare-metal and real-time platforms.
• Embedded Hardware Integration: Interpret electrical schematics and IC datasheets to understand hardware functionality, develop firmware interfaces, and support embedded system integration.
• Real-Time Control & Data Streaming: Develop real-time firmware for precise timing, closed-loop control, high-speed data acquisition, data processing, and streaming between embedded hardware and host systems.
• Board Bring-Up & Debug: Bring up new boards in the lab with the hardware team and troubleshoot firmware and hardware issues.
• Hardware-Software Interface: Integrate communication protocols and command interfaces between embedded instruments and host applications, working closely with hardware and software teams.
• Documentation & Testing: Create and maintain firmware requirements, design documents, test plans, and release procedures.

Required Qualifications: Firmware Engineer II

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience, ideally for instruments, test equipment, or other hardware products.
• Proficiency in embedded C/C++ programming.
• Experience with Git and version control.
• Experience with microcontroller or ARM-based systems, including bare-metal firmware or real-time operating systems (RTOS).
• Experience developing firmware for hardware interfaces, data acquisition, and real-time control, including timing-sensitive operations and hardware-firmware integration.
• Ability to read electrical schematics and hardware datasheets.
• Hands-on experience with PCB bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and firmware debugging using laboratory test equipment, including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Additional Required Qualifications: Senior Firmware Engineer

• 5+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience.
• Experience designing firmware architecture for embedded systems, including real-time control, hardware interfaces, or data acquisition.
• Hands-on experience with FPGA development using Verilog/VHDL, including design, simulation, debugging, and hardware integration, or equivalent FPGA development experience on processor-FPGA SoC platforms.
• Working knowledge of processor-FPGA SoC integration, including hardware-software interfaces and system-level integration.
• Ability to lead technical design decisions and mentor other engineers., * Experience with embedded Linux development and maintenance, including BSP, Device Tree, and hardware integration.
• Experience with high-speed communication interfaces.
• Experience with digital signal processing or numerical computation.
• Experience with firmware build automation, continuous integration, or automated testing.
• Experience with instrument communication protocols.
• Experience developing firmware for scientific instruments, industrial automation, or other electronic hardware products.

At Luna Innovations, we measure and manage light in optical fiber. Our Optics/Polarization product line, based in Chino, CA, specializes in industry-leading components, modules, and test equipment for the characterization and control of optical polarization. Our instruments, ranging from dynamic optical delay/phase management and high-speed polarization state management to full-function polarization light analyzers, are critical for optical communications, silicon photonics testing, and fiber optic sensing.