Firmware Engineer - RFID Systems (Hybrid, Austin)

RXinsider LTD.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Unlimited vacation days

Generous insurance coverage

401k with company match

Fun, collaborative culture!

Job summary

Bluesight is seeking an engineer to own firmware across our RFID reader fleet, spanning multiple languages and device models. The role blends software and hardware work, with hands-on firmware maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting in a collaborative environment in Austin, TX.

You’ll primarily work with Python and Go, contribute to the device-control platform, and create documentation to empower the Support team for live-device operations in the field.

Qualifications

• Comfortable working in unfamiliar programming languages and ramping into new stacks quickly.
• Able to make progress toward a goal even when the path forward is abstract or not fully defined.
• Genuinely interested in close collaboration with product and domain experts.
• Strong communication habits: proactive updates, regular check-ins, and comfortable flagging blockers early.
• Early-career engineers with strong fundamentals who are excited by broad language and hardware exposure will thrive here.

Responsibilities

• Own firmware across our full fleet of RFID reader models — maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Produce and maintain the support documentation and materials our Support team needs to handle day-to-day, live-device support in the field.
• Take ownership of the codebase: create, review, and contribute to pull requests across a wide variety of languages and frameworks.
• Contribute to and grow expertise in our RFID device-control platform, including performance-sensitive scanning code.

Skills

Python

Go

Firmware

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

GitHub

Git

Docker

Jira

Slack

Linux

Job description

Bluesight is seeking an engineer to own firmware across our RFID reader fleet, spanning multiple languages and device models. The role blends software and hardware work, with hands-on firmware maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting in a collaborative environment in Austin, TX.

You’ll primarily work with Python and Go, contribute to the device-control platform, and create documentation to empower the Support team for live-device operations in the field.