Wearables Firmware & Backend Engineer – On-Site SF

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in the SF Bay Area is seeking an Embedded Systems & Backend Engineer to bridge wearable hardware, firmware, cloud systems, and real-time AI infrastructure. This role places you at the intersection of device firmware and backend services, requiring hands-on experience with low-level engineering and scalable platforms.

You will work on wearable-device firmware, embedded Linux/RTOS, and backend pipelines, collaborating with hardware partners and

Qualifications

• 1 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates.
• Hands-on firmware or embedded systems experience.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, device SDKs, or comparable low-level systems.
• Strong backend or systems engineering fundamentals.
• Comfort working close to hardware and debugging across software and device boundaries.
• Experience shipping production systems in fast-moving engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with wearable-device firmware and hardware platforms.
• Flash, configure, adapt, and integrate vendor firmware and device software.
• Work with embedded Linux, RTOS environments, and/or device SDKs.
• Evaluate camera, sensor, compute, battery, thermal, and latency requirements.
• Contribute to hardware specifications and technical discussions with external manufacturing partners.
• Develop backend infrastructure supporting real-time multimodal data pipelines.
• Work close to the system layer using technologies such as C, C++, or Rust where appropriate.
• Own components across device, backend, and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

Rust

Firmware debugging

Backend systems

Hardware integration

Tools

Embedded Linux

RTOS

Device SDKs

C

C++

Rust

Job description

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in the SF Bay Area is seeking an Embedded Systems & Backend Engineer to bridge wearable hardware, firmware, cloud systems, and real-time AI infrastructure. This role places you at the intersection of device firmware and backend services, requiring hands-on experience with low-level engineering and scalable platforms.

You will work on wearable-device firmware, embedded Linux/RTOS, and backend pipelines, collaborating with hardware partners and