Remote Firmware Engineer - Embedded Systems & IoT

Royper Royco LLC; Austin, Seattle, San Francisco (TX, WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Firmware Engineer to shape hardware platforms and deliver robust firmware for millions of devices across global customers.

You will work with C for MCU platforms, RTOS and embedded Linux, and collaborate across hardware, cloud, and QA teams to enable reliable data processing from sensors and gateways. This role emphasizes hands-on hardware bring-up, driver development, and production-readiness.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building firmware for resource-constrained systems and shipped products.
• Fluency in C and understanding of compiler, linker maps, and runtime diagnostics.
• Bare-metal and RTOS experience (Zephyr, FreeRTOS) with scheduling and memory decisions.
• Experience bringing up new boards, hardware-software integration and debugging.

Responsibilities

• Shape hardware decisions, select SoC, flash/RAM, sensors, and validate on prototypes.
• Bring up new boards, configure I/O (SPI, I2C, UART, BLE) and validate hardware.
• Build firmware layers: drivers, secure bootloaders, firmware updates, power/connectivity.
• Design for microamp battery-powered devices and long-term field reliability.
• Collaborate with product, full-stack, mobile, and quality engineers to ensure data integrity.

Skills

C

Firmware development

RTOS (Zephyr/FreeRTOS)

SPI

I2C

UART

CAN

ADC

Python

Bash

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Firmware Engineer to shape hardware platforms and deliver robust firmware for millions of devices across global customers.

You will work with C for MCU platforms, RTOS and embedded Linux, and collaborate across hardware, cloud, and QA teams to enable reliable data processing from sensors and gateways. This role emphasizes hands-on hardware bring-up, driver development, and production-readiness.