Firmware Boot and Driver Engineer

HushOne, Inc.; Kirkland (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

Health, dental and vision insurance

Job summary

HushOne, Inc. is seeking an experienced embedded firmware engineer to build and integrate boot firmware, embedded-controller logic and drivers.

You will support measured or verified boot, signed updates, rollback protection and recovery, while documenting vendor boundaries and using supported interfaces. In the first months, you will demonstrate reliable bring-up and an interrupted-update recovery path on the reference platform, collaborating with hardware engineers to bring-up hardware with an

Qualifications

• Embedded systems experience with strong debugging across registers, interrupts, DMA, and operating-system interfaces.
• Explain how you protect secrets during diagnostics and factory provisioning.
• Design an update path that survives failing halfway.
• Comfort with hardware bring-up alongside an engineer holding a scope.

Responsibilities

• Build or integrate boot firmware, embedded-controller logic and drivers.
• Support measured or verified boot where the platform exposes it, signed updates, rollback protection and recovery.
• Document boundaries controlled by vendors and use supported interfaces.
• Review firmware update design for power-loss behavior and risk of accepting a vulnerable older image.

Skills

Embedded systems

Debugging across registers

Interrupts

DMA

OS interfaces

Security/ provisioning

Firmware update path design

Tools

UEFI/U-Boot

Device drivers

Firmware bring-up

Job description

You work where hardware and software meet: making the computer start safely, understand its devices, and recover when an update fails. Recovery is the part most teams underinvest in, and it is the part that decides whether a bad update is an inconvenience or a brick.

The work

Build or integrate boot firmware, embedded-controller logic and drivers. Support measured or verified boot where the platform exposes it, signed updates, rollback protection and recovery. Document boundaries controlled by vendors and use supported interfaces.

What good looks like

In your first 90 days, demonstrate reliable bring-up and an interrupted-update recovery path on the selected reference platform.

Evidence we look for

Bring embedded systems experience and strong debugging skills across registers, interrupts, DMA and operating-system interfaces. Explain how you protect secrets during diagnostics and factory provisioning.

Required

• Embedded systems experience with strong debugging across registers, interrupts, DMA, and operating-system interfaces
• You can explain how you protect secrets during diagnostics and factory provisioning
• You design an update path that survives failing halfway
• Comfort with hardware bring-up alongside an engineer holding a scope

Nice to have

• Secure boot and measured boot
• UEFI, U-Boot, or comparable
• Device driver work on a mainstream operating system

The exercise

Review a firmware update design for power-loss behavior and the risk of accepting a vulnerable older image.

How we work

We work together in the office, five days a week, and you can be based at any of our garages: Kirkland Garage (Kirkland, WA); UAE Garage (Dubai, Dubai). We hire across the United States, India and the UAE. We are remote-friendly around family: if you need to work from home some days to look after the people you love, we arrange that with you one person at a time, and we encourage people to use it rather than tough it out.

Pay

We publish what we pay. Indicative ranges by market and level are on our compensation page, and they are realistic going market rates rather than headline numbers. Wherever we hire we pay at least the local market rate, and for full-time roles our floor is a living wage, never the statutory minimum. Compensation is reviewed every year and on promotion.

Equity

Every full-time teammate gets stock options. Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff, sized to role, level and impact, and confirmed in writing at offer. High performers earn refresh grants.

Bonus and commission

An annual performance bonus tied to clear company and personal goals, indicatively 10 to 20 percent of base for non-sales roles. Customer-facing roles carry on-target earnings, typically a 50/50 split of base and variable, with uncapped commission and accelerators above quota.

Health and peace of mind

Medical, dental and vision for you and your family, plus life and disability cover. We have chosen the highest plan tier available to us rather than the cheapest one that clears the bar, because the point of this is that you never have to think about it. The specific plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.

401(k) with company matching

A 401(k) with a company match, so the years you spend here compound into something that is yours whatever happens next. The match formula is confirmed in your offer letter.

AI tokens

A budget of AI tokens of your own, because a company that says you should own your AI cannot be the company that rations it. Use them on the work and on whatever you are curious about.

Gym, and the everyday things

A gym membership, and a corporate benefits programme with its own app, where you redeem real discounts with a long list of retailers on the ordinary purchases of a life.

Family

We are remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time, and we would rather you took it than toughed it out.

Referrals

Refer someone we hire full-time who stays a year and you get $1,000 plus $10,000 in referral stock-based equity, on top of your own package.