Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer – IoT Platform

American Innovations; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

American Innovations in Austin, TX is hiring a Staff Firmware Engineer to add senior embedded firmware capacity on a small R&D team delivering a flagship IoT product. This is an individual contributor role with no people management expectations.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, code reviews, tests, and cross-team collaboration, growing toward broader platform ownership as the foundation stabilizes.

Qualifications

• Embedded C/C++ experience in shipped products.
• Experience with FSMs, event-driven architectures and embedded UI.
• HAL/driver architecture for MCU-based products.
• Proficiency with RTOS, bootloaders, low-power design.
• Test automation, hardware-in-loop, and CI for embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Support firmware execution, state machines, HAL boundaries and drivers.
• Collaborate with senior firmware engineer on near-term delivery.
• Work with architecture advisor on platform standards and release hygiene.
• Grow into broader firmware ownership on follow-on product lines.
• Maintain disciplined embedded execution with design notes, reviews and tests.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

State-pattern FSM

HAL/driver architecture

RTOS & bootloaders

Test automation

Code review & CI

BLE/USB/serial

Hardware debugging

Job description

American Innovations in Austin, TX is hiring a Staff Firmware Engineer to add senior embedded firmware capacity on a small R&D team delivering a flagship IoT product. This is an individual contributor role with no people management expectations.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, code reviews, tests, and cross-team collaboration, growing toward broader platform ownership as the foundation stabilizes.