Senior Firmware Engineer

Jobot; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k)

Life insurance

Opportunities to visit customer jobsWs

Job summary

Jobot is partnering with a rapidly growing robotics company building autonomous systems for heavy machinery and demanding industrial environments. We are seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and build the embedded systems powering autonomous machines and fleet operations.

You will develop production-quality embedded C++ software that connects computing platforms to sensors, actuators, ECUs and safety systems, operating at the boundary between hardware and software to define how the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of firmware or embedded-systems development experience.
• Strong embedded or systems-level C++ programming experience.
• Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers or embedded Linux systems.
• Experience with CAN, SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet or similar interfaces.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries.
• Experience delivering production-quality firmware for real-world products.
• Understanding of reliability, failure modes and defensive system design.
• Ability to work effectively across firmware, hardware and mechanical engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware for a next-generation embedded hardware platform.
• Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers and system services.
• Build interfaces for sensors, actuators, ECUs and other machine components.
• Work with CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART and other communication protocols.
• Develop deterministic real-time and near-real-time control paths.
• Write clean, efficient and testable embedded C++ code.
• Implement watchdogs, error handling and fail-safe behavior.
• Design firmware that remains reliable through hardware faults, communication loss and environmental variability.
• Build logging, tracing, telemetry and embedded diagnostic capabilities.
• Lead firmware bring-up for new boards, daughterboards and related hardware.
• Partner with electrical and mechanical engineers to validate designs and interfaces.
• Diagnose difficult issues spanning firmware, hardware and system integration.
• Perform root-cause analysis on failures found during testing or field deployment.
• Optimize timing, memory consumption and CPU utilization.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression testing and field validation.
• Improve firmware CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and development workflows.
• Establish standards for firmware safety, reliability and maintainability.
• Mentor other engineers on embedded development and debugging practices

Skills

C++ programming

Embedded systems

CAN

Ethernet

SPI

I2C

UART

RTOS concepts

Hardware bring-up

Debugging (HW/SW)

Production firmware

Real-time control

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Robotics

Tools

Embedded Linux

Microcontrollers

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salary: $180,000 - $230,000 per year

A bit about us

We are partnering with a rapidly growing robotics company building autonomous systems for heavy machinery and demanding industrial environments. Their technology brings together embedded software, robotics, advanced hardware and mission-critical infrastructure to automate work traditionally performed through manual and high-risk operations. The company is developing its next-generation hardware platform and is looking for an experienced firmware engineer to help build the foundation connecting onboard computing, sensors, control systems and real-world machine actuation.

Why join us

• Build firmware that directly controls autonomous heavy machinery
• Take ownership of a next-generation embedded hardware platform
• Work across firmware, electrical engineering, robotics, autonomy and field operations
• Solve complex real-time and safety-critical engineering problems
• Own systems from initial hardware bring-up through production deployment
• Help shape firmware architecture, standards and engineering practices
• See your work operate on real equipment—not just behave nicely inside a laboratory
• Competitive compensation, equity, medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k), life insurance and opportunities to visit customer jobsites

Job Details

We are seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and build the embedded systems powering autonomous machines and fleet operations.

You will develop production-quality embedded C++ software that connects computing platforms to sensors, actuators, ECUs and safety systems. This position requires an engineer who can operate comfortably at the boundary between hardware and software and who understands that firmware ultimately determines how a physical machine behaves.

You will own systems from board bring-up and driver development through testing, deployment, observability and field troubleshooting.

What You Will Do

• Design and implement firmware for a next-generation embedded hardware platform
• Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers and system services
• Build interfaces for sensors, actuators, ECUs and other machine components
• Work with CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART and other communication protocols
• Develop deterministic real-time and near-real-time control paths
• Write clean, efficient and testable embedded C++ code
• Implement watchdogs, error handling and fail-safe behavior
• Design firmware that remains reliable through hardware faults, communication loss and environmental variability
• Build logging, tracing, telemetry and embedded diagnostic capabilities
• Lead firmware bring-up for new boards, daughterboards and related hardware
• Partner with electrical and mechanical engineers to validate designs and interfaces
• Diagnose difficult issues spanning firmware, hardware and system integration
• Perform root-cause analysis on failures found during testing or field deployment
• Optimize timing, memory consumption and CPU utilization
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression testing and field validation
• Improve firmware CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and development workflows
• Establish standards for firmware safety, reliability and maintainabilityMentor other engineers on embedded development and debugging practices

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics or equivalent professional experience
• 5+ years of firmware or embedded-systems development experience
• Strong embedded or systems-level C++ programming experience
• Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers or embedded Linux systems
• Experience with CAN, SPI, I²C, UART, Ethernet or similar interfaces
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries
• Experience delivering production-quality firmware for real-world products
• Understanding of reliability, failure modes and defensive system design
• Ability to work effectively across firmware, hardware and mechanical engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with robotics, autonomous systems or heavy equipment
• Experience developing safety-critical or real-time embedded systems
• Familiarity with an RTOS or real-time scheduling concepts
• Hardware bring-up and board-level debugging experience
• Experience with bootloaders, OTA updates or secure firmware updates
• Experience building embedded logging, tracing or telemetry systems
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing or automated hardware-validation experience
• Experience supporting products deployed in unpredictable or physically demanding environments
• Background improving firmware testing, CI/CD or release processes

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