Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer – Real-Time Robotics (SF On-site)

GRAM; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Equity

Job summary

GRAM seeks an experienced embedded software engineer to own firmware from microcontrollers through the Linux runtime. You will bring up electronics, develop drivers, ensure deterministic communications, timing, health monitoring, and stable interfaces for higher autonomy.

You will design C/C++ firmware, build hardware abstraction, and create robust fault handling, logging, and recovery strategies for known hardware configurations. On-site in San Francisco Bay Area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• Shipped C/C++ software on a custom electromechanical product using RTOS/embedded Linux.
• Experience bringing up hardware, writing drivers, and solving real-time constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement C and C++ firmware and device drivers for real-time systems.
• Define timing, bandwidth, lifecycle, state-machine, calibration, diagnostic, and fault-response contracts across subsystems.
• Bring up new boards and embedded compute with debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and kernel traces.
• Build boot, provisioning, parameter/configuration, software update, rollback, and recovery paths.
• Develop simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, fault-injection, and regression tests that gate releases.
• Measure latency, jitter, resource use, startup time, and logging quality under load.
• Investigate integrated machine failures across firmware, Linux, networking, and electronics, then document fixes.

Skills

C/C++ firmware

Device drivers

RTOS / embedded Linux

Real-time systems

Hardware bring-up

Telemetry & logging

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field

Tools

Debuggers

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Bus analyzers

Kernel traces

Job description

GRAM seeks an experienced embedded software engineer to own firmware from microcontrollers through the Linux runtime. You will bring up electronics, develop drivers, ensure deterministic communications, timing, health monitoring, and stable interfaces for higher autonomy.

You will design C/C++ firmware, build hardware abstraction, and create robust fault handling, logging, and recovery strategies for known hardware configurations. On-site in San Francisco Bay Area.