Lead Embedded Firmware Architect - Rust, NFC & OTA for IoT

CI Solutions; Los Alamitos (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CI Solutions seeks a Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer to own the CR-One firmware platform and the tools for build, provision, release, update, and support. You will lead the firmware across devices in customer environments and collaborate with hardware, backend, product, and manufacturing teams.

Deep expertise in embedded Rust, RTOS, and secure boot, plus hands-on debugging and OTA lifecycle management, are essential to drive reliable deployments and future capabilities for connected readers

Qualifications

• Experience with embedded systems and performance-sensitive software.
• Ability to debug hardware from datasheets and protocol specs.
• Experience taking ownership of large codebases without stopping delivery.
• Experience supporting embedded products through production and after deployment.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the CR-One firmware platform and its build, flash, provisioning, release, and update pipelines.
• Safely extend and improve firmware running on devices in customer and partner environments.
• Own the OTA release lifecycle, including signing, staged deployment, rollback, health validation, and incident response.
• Diagnose firmware and hardware problems using logs, telemetry, serial traces, and controlled reproduction.
• Improve reproducible builds, release documentation, and operational visibility.
• Maintain backward-compatibility across firmware versions, device configurations, and shared wire protocols.
• Support factory programming, provisioning, production testing, hardware revisions, and manufacturing failure analysis.
• Partner with backend and dashboard engineers on device configuration, telemetry, fleet health, and remote support.
• Help define the firmware architecture for future CR-One generations.
• Improve the system incrementally while continuing to deliver customer and partner capabilities.

Skills

Embedded systems

RTOS-based development

Firmware debugging

Device lifecycle management

Cross-functional collaboration

Industrial-grade security

Tools

ESP-IDF

FreeRTOS

ESP32

TLS

OTA tooling

Job description

CI Solutions seeks a Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer to own the CR-One firmware platform and the tools for build, provision, release, update, and support. You will lead the firmware across devices in customer environments and collaborate with hardware, backend, product, and manufacturing teams.

Deep expertise in embedded Rust, RTOS, and secure boot, plus hands-on debugging and OTA lifecycle management, are essential to drive reliable deployments and future capabilities for connected readers