Hardware & Firmware Application Engineer (Customer-Facing)

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC is seeking an Application Engineer - Hardware/Firmware for OEM integrations in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will bridge engineering and customers, designing and validating hardware integrations from concept to production.

The role requires hands-on hardware and embedded firmware work, collaboration with hardware, firmware, and product teams, and regular travel to customer sites.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on hardware engineering and embedded firmware development.
• Experience owning hardware designs from concept through production.
• Excellent communication with customers and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Go-to-Market teams during pre-sales to evaluate customer hardware environments and develop proof-of-concept integrations.
• Design and implement hardware integration layers between embedded platforms and customer infrastructure.
• Develop, modify, and debug embedded firmware to support customer-specific hardware integrations.
• Own customer integration projects from kickoff through design, validation, production release, and deployment.
• Lead customer-facing technical discussions, design reviews, on-site visits, and engineering workshops.
• Produce engineering documentation including design reviews, validation plans, bring-up guides, installation documentation, KPI tracking, and deployment artifacts.

Skills

Hardware engineering

Embedded firmware

Customer communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC is seeking an Application Engineer - Hardware/Firmware for OEM integrations in the San Francisco Bay Area. You will bridge engineering and customers, designing and validating hardware integrations from concept to production.

The role requires hands-on hardware and embedded firmware work, collaboration with hardware, firmware, and product teams, and regular travel to customer sites.