Software, Firmware Engineering Expert

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Utilize hands-on expertise in software, firmware, and digital hardware to tackle technically challenging engineering tasks related to real physical systems.

• Analyze and assess embedded firmware, FPGA/RTL designs, flight software, test automation frameworks, hardware interfaces, and system-level engineering processes.

• Evaluate architectural and implementation trade-offs concerning real-time performance, timing, memory, computational resources, interfaces, reliability, fault management, concurrency, and hardware/software integration.

• Determine the technical accuracy, robustness, and practical viability of engineering solutions for embedded and hardware-connected systems in real-world applications.

• Identify implementation mistakes, incorrect assumptions, race conditions, timing challenges, interface failures, resource limitations, and other potential system-level failure modes.

• Create or assess technically rigorous engineering problems, reference implementations, test scenarios, evaluation metrics, and accompanying technical documentation.

• Leverage practical experience in development, integration, hardware bring-up, debugging, verification, validation, test automation, and deployment processes.

• Offer clear technical feedback based on real-world engineering experience and constraints of production hardware.

• Contribute to the enhancement of how advanced AI systems understand embedded development, hardware/software integration, digital design, real-time systems, testing, and debugging.

• Collaborate remotely with seasoned engineers and researchers on projects aimed at training and advancing AI systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software, firmware, FPGA, or embedded systems engineering.

• At least 3 years of recent hands-on experience in developing, integrating, testing, bringing up, or troubleshooting software/firmware on actual hardware.

• Experience serving as the lead engineer for production hardware-connected software or firmware, managing key aspects of the lifecycle from requirements and architecture to implementation, integration, hardware bring-up, verification, validation, debugging, and deployment.

• In-depth technical knowledge in at least one core area: embedded firmware and real-time systems; FPGA/RTL design and verification; flight software and safety/mission-critical systems; or hardware test automation and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure.

• Strong practical understanding of relevant technologies including C/C++, Python, RTOS/bare-metal development, device drivers, bootloaders, embedded Linux, SPI/I²C/UART/CAN/Ethernet, Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL, FPGA toolchains, hardware interfaces, telemetry, and automated test systems.

• Extensive hands-on experience in debugging software-hardware interactions and physical systems utilizing JTAG/SWD debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, hardware simulators/emulators, HIL/SIL environments, automated test equipment, CI infrastructure, and structured root-cause analysis.

• Proven track record in developing systems within real-world product or hardware manufacturing settings.

• Candidates from similar hardware-centric organizations are encouraged to apply.

• Must be able to operate as an independent contractor.

• H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not eligible.

🏝️ Benefits

• Payments are processed weekly through Stripe or Wise based on services provided.

• Fully remote work options available.

• Flexible engagement structures.

• Opportunity to work on your own schedule.

• Projects can be adjusted in duration based on needs and performance.

• Up to $480 referral bonus for each successful referral, subject to referral limitations.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.