Senior Firmware Engineer, Platform

Here Technologies
Torrance, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 273K

Job location

Torrance, United States of America

Tech stack

UClibc (C Standard Library)
Code Review
Software Debugging
Linux
Embedded C
Linux on Embedded Systems
Firmware
Open Source Technology
Real-Time Operating Systems
Data Logging
Yocto

Job description

  • Own the common runtime and libraries every firmware team consumes - logging, telemetry, IPC, configuration - on MCU-based systems and Linux targets
  • Own the build system and cross-compile toolchain: fast, reproducible, hermetic builds across every target we ship, and the SDK other teams consume
  • Design and maintain the interfaces other teams build on, keeping them stable as the platform evolves underneath
  • Solve the hard, ambiguous problems that surface where the platform meets its consumer teams
  • Drive resource trade-offs - compute, memory, bandwidth - when subsystems compete for the same budget
  • Raise the firmware engineering bar through patterns, code review, and mentoring

Requirements

  • Mastery of embedded C on shipped products, with fluency across both MCU/RTOS and embedded Linux environments
  • Have built platform code that other engineers depended on - libraries, SDKs, or protocols consumed by multiple teams - and kept them stable through change
  • Hands-on ownership of an embedded build system (e.g. Bazel) - cross-compilation across multiple targets, dependency management, and build reproducibility
  • Track record of owning problems that spanned team or subsystem boundaries and driving them to shipped resolution
  • Strong resource-constrained design judgment - compute, memory, and bandwidth trade-offs on real hardware
  • Debugging mastery - a history of cracking the bugs others gave up on
  • Hands-on: you still ship code, and your technical influence comes from the work, * Bazel specifically, especially for embedded/cross-compiled targets - or migrating a firmware org onto it
  • Embedded Linux platform internals - kernel, BSPs, Yocto/Buildroot - alongside MCU work
  • Flight-stack experience - Betaflight, PX4, or similar
  • DSP, comms, or RF-adjacent firmware
  • Visible open-source systems work
  • You fly - FPV, RC, or drones generally

Benefits & conditions

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.

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