Senior Firmware Engineer for Real-Time Autonomous Robotics

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

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