Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Essential Functions

• Developing motor control firmware, sensor drivers, communication protocols, and hardware abstraction layers for general-purpose robots
• Owning hardware bring-up by writing low-level peripheral drivers, validating new PCBs, and debugging firmware and hardware boundary issues
• Implementing and optimizing motor control algorithms including torque, velocity, and position loops on bare-metal and RTOS platforms
• Developing and maintaining real-time communication stacks including EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, I2C, and UART
• Contributing to firmware safety architecture, establishing coding standards, and building CI/CD and hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in embedded firmware development in C/C++ with production-deployed product experience
• Motor control firmware or actuator firmware experience including FOC, torque control, or similar on bare-metal or RTOS platforms
• Industry experience in robotics, automotive, industrial automation, or consumer electronics
• Experience scaling firmware from prototype to production deployment
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, ECE, or related field
• Strong C/C++ skills for bare-metal and RTOS environments including ARM Cortex-M, TI C2000, or similar MCU families
• Communication protocols at driver level including EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART
• Hardware bring-up experience with JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with production robot deployments at scale
• Background in firmware safety architecture and coding standards
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems

Technical Skills

• C/C++
• ARM Cortex-M
• TI C2000
• EtherCAT
• CAN
• SPI
• I2C
• UART
• JTAG
• RTOS
• Bare-metal firmware development
• Motor control algorithms

Education & Certifications

Compensation & Benefits