Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Safety-Critical

General Matter, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

General Matter in Los Angeles is seeking an embedded software engineer to design and develop safety-critical firmware for electromechanical systems. The role covers the full embedded stack, bringing up boards, writing drivers, and building HIL infrastructure to test changes on real hardware.

You will collaborate with electrical and controls engineers to translate requirements into firmware, review designs, and help set engineering standards for a growing team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional embedded software development experience.
• Strong production experience in modern C++ or Rust.
• Hands-on experience integrating hardware and software and developing device drivers.
• Comfortable reading schematics and datasheets and debugging on the bench.

Responsibilities

• Develop bare-metal, safety-critical software in modern C++ that is readable, testable and efficient.
• Bring up new boards and debug board-level issues with lab equipment.
• Write drivers for a range of ICs over UART, SPI and I2C.
• Write and maintain wired communication stacks, e.g. CANopen, TCP, UDP
• Design HAL interfaces that let applications move between platforms.
• Build HIL CI infrastructure that tests software changes on real hardware.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and failure mode analysis reviews

Skills

Modern C++

Rust

Embedded systems

Hardware‑software integration

Debugging on bench

Reading schematics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

CANopen

TCP/IP

UART

SPI

I2C

Job description

General Matter in Los Angeles is seeking an embedded software engineer to design and develop safety-critical firmware for electromechanical systems. The role covers the full embedded stack, bringing up boards, writing drivers, and building HIL infrastructure to test changes on real hardware.

You will collaborate with electrical and controls engineers to translate requirements into firmware, review designs, and help set engineering standards for a growing team.