Senior Firmware Engineer for Autonomous Machinery

AIM; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision

401(k)

Life insurance

Travel opportunities

Job summary

AIM is building autonomous heavy equipment and seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and deploy core firmware powering our fleet. You will own end-to-end bring-up, from hardware to production deployment, ensuring deterministic real-time behavior and robust safety features.

You'll develop low-level drivers, HALs, and interfaces to sensors, actuators, ECUs, and networks (CAN/Ethernet). Expect workload with high reliability in harsh environments and opportunities to influence architecture and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5 years of professional experience in firmware or embedded systems development.
• Strong C experience in embedded or systems programming environments.
• Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers or embedded Linux systems.
• Experience with hardware interfaces and communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet).
• Strong debugging skills across hardware/software boundaries.
• Experience designing systems for reliability, safety, and real-world deployment.
• Proven ability to deliver production-quality firmware in cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware for AIM's Generation 2 hardware platform using C.
• Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), and system services.
• Build robust interfaces to sensors, actuators, ECUs, and communication buses (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet).
• Ensure deterministic behavior across real-time and near-real-time control paths.
• Write clean, efficient, testable embedded C code with robust error handling.
• Lead firmware bring-up for new hardware and collaborate with Electrical/Mechanical Eng.
• Improve telemetry, logging, and debugging capabilities for embedded systems.
• Drive performance optimization and real-time scheduling for safety-critical paths.

Skills

Embedded software

C programming

Real-time systems

Debugging across HW/SW

Reliability & safety mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent

Tools

CAN

SPI

I2C

UART

Ethernet

Job description

AIM is building autonomous heavy equipment and seeks a Senior Firmware Engineer to design and deploy core firmware powering our fleet. You will own end-to-end bring-up, from hardware to production deployment, ensuring deterministic real-time behavior and robust safety features.

You'll develop low-level drivers, HALs, and interfaces to sensors, actuators, ECUs, and networks (CAN/Ethernet). Expect workload with high reliability in harsh environments and opportunities to influence architecture and