Embedded Firmware Engineer — Drone & RTOS

Emploive; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Small, technical team where your work

Job summary

Hextronics in Miami, FL is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to own firmware for its drone and dock hardware. You will write code for resource-constrained microcontrollers, bring up new boards, and debug firmware against real hardware with test instruments in hand.

This is a hands-on, small-team role with ship-to-field timelines in months. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s in EE or CS and 2–5 years of experience with C/C++, STM32, bare-metal and RTOS, plus strong schematic literacy and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, CS, or related field.
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Responsibilities

• Own firmware development for Hex's drone and dock platforms across bare metal and RTOS environments
• Bring up new hardware: board power-on, peripheral validation, and debug against schematic and layout
• Diagnose firmware and hardware interaction issues independently using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other bench instrumentation
• Read schematics, board layouts, and datasheets directly, and account for electrical and physical constraints in your code
• Write and execute test and validation procedures for development and production firmware
• Serve as the first point of contact for the software and hardware teams on integration and testing of the firmware you build
• Drive root cause analysis on firmware and hardware-interaction issues
• Contribute to architecture decisions where the firmware, electrical, and software boundaries meet

Skills

C/C++ embedded

Embedded RTOS

STM32 MCU

Schematic reading

Oscilloscopes

Hardware debugging

Firmware bring-up

2-5 years exp

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Altium

Job description

Hextronics in Miami, FL is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to own firmware for its drone and dock hardware. You will write code for resource-constrained microcontrollers, bring up new boards, and debug firmware against real hardware with test instruments in hand.

This is a hands-on, small-team role with ship-to-field timelines in months. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s in EE or CS and 2–5 years of experience with C/C++, STM32, bare-metal and RTOS, plus strong schematic literacy and