Founding Firmware Architect for Wearable Tech

Brahma Consulting Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A senior firmware leadership role for a well-funded consumer hardware company building a first-of-its-kind wearable. You will architect and own the entire firmware stack, set the engineering standards, and build the firmware team from the ground up.

You will drive RTOS choices, multi-MCU integration, and power-optimized designs while collaborating with external partners and reporting to the Head of Hardware.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of embedded firmware engineering experience for consumer electronics.
• ownership of a firmware stack on ARM Cortex-M with Zephyr and/or other RTOS environments.
• At least one consumer electronics product shipped to production under your leadership.
• Strong system-level thinking across sensing, connectivity, and compute, including wireless (BLE, Wi‑Fi) and low-power design.
• Hands-on depth in bring-up and debugging (JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes).
• Experience building and scaling a firmware team and collaborating with external hardware partners.

Responsibilities

• Architect firmware across a distributed, multi-MCU platform spanning always-on sensing, connectivity, and compute domains, owning architecture decisions.
• Stay hands-on with board bring-up, debugging, and unblock the team on first-of-its-kind challenges.
• Identify organizational needs, hire and build out the firmware team, and manage external partners while owning end-to-end firmware delivery.
• Drive SoC evaluation and tech-stack decisions across the full compute range, from bare-metal sensor hubs to multi-core SoCs.
• Establish production-grade engineering practices: build/release pipelines, device health telemetry, OTA with safe rollback, and field debug tooling.

Skills

Embedded firmware

System-level thinking

BLE/Wi‑Fi wireless

Low-power design

Debugging (JTAG/SWD)

Firmware team leadership

Tools

Zephyr RTOS

FreeRTOS

ARM Cortex-M

BLE stack

OTA updates

Job description

A senior firmware leadership role for a well-funded consumer hardware company building a first-of-its-kind wearable. You will architect and own the entire firmware stack, set the engineering standards, and build the firmware team from the ground up.

You will drive RTOS choices, multi-MCU integration, and power-optimized designs while collaborating with external partners and reporting to the Head of Hardware.