Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Robotics

LAB37; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 158,000 - 218,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Disability insurance

Voluntary accident insurance

Voluntary critical illness insurance

Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance

Supplemental life insurance

401(k)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays

Job summary

Lab37 Robotics in Pittsburgh is seeking a Firmware Engineer to own embedded software for our custom robot boards, connecting sensors, actuators, and higher-level software from early bring-up to production deployment. You will work alongside electrical, motor-controls, and robotics software engineers to define interfaces, diagnose failures, and ship reliable firmware and tools that teammates can depend on.

This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, testability, and CI integration, with

Qualifications

• Track record of shipping microcontroller firmware on custom hardware.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain embedded C firmware for custom microcontroller boards, including device drivers, board support, communication protocols, and application state machines.
• Partner with electrical engineers on component selection, schematic reviews, debug access, and testability; bring up new boards and investigate failures.
• Implement predictable real-time behavior across interrupts, DMA, peripheral interfaces, and RTOS tasks.
• Define clear contracts between boards and robot software: commands, state reporting, timeouts, fault handling, and version compatibility.
• Design startup, watchdog, brownout, communication-loss, and recovery behavior; expose diagnostics for intermittent failures.
• Own firmware delivery and serviceability: bootloaders, validated updates and recovery paths, versioned configuration and calibration.
• Build automated unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests; develop tools for production bring-up, calibration, manufacturing tests, and CI integration.
• Document design decisions and troubleshooting procedures; participate in reviews and help teammates work with embedded systems.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

Real-time OS

Board bring-up

SWD/JTAG debugging

CAN_SPI_I2C_UART

Python scripting

Diagnostics & testing

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

SWD/JTAG debuggers

Schematic reading

Job description

Lab37 Robotics in Pittsburgh is seeking a Firmware Engineer to own embedded software for our custom robot boards, connecting sensors, actuators, and higher-level software from early bring-up to production deployment. You will work alongside electrical, motor-controls, and robotics software engineers to define interfaces, diagnose failures, and ship reliable firmware and tools that teammates can depend on.

This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, testability, and CI integration, with