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 involving real-world physical systems.

• Evaluate and review embedded firmware, FPGA/RTL designs, flight software, test automation frameworks, hardware interfaces, and engineering workflows at the system level.

• Analyze trade-offs in architecture and implementation concerning real-time performance, timing, memory, computational resources, interfaces, reliability, fault management, concurrency, and integration of hardware and software.

• Examine the technical accuracy, robustness, and practical viability of engineering solutions for embedded and hardware-connected systems.

• Detect implementation mistakes, incorrect assumptions, race conditions, timing problems, interface failures, resource limitations, and other potential failure modes at the system level.

• Create or review engineering challenges, reference implementations, test cases, evaluation criteria, and technical documentation.

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

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

• Assist AI research aimed at training and improving 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 as the lead engineer for production hardware-connected software or firmware.

• Proven track record managing lifecycle activities from requirements and architecture to implementation, integration, hardware setup, verification, validation, debugging, and deployment.

• Extensive expertise 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.

• Proficient in 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, as necessary.

• Hands-on experience 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.

• Background in developing systems within real-world product or hardware manufacturing environments.

• Capacity to articulate architectural decisions, implementation trade-offs, test outcomes, and failure mechanisms.

• Experience at a company that designs, builds, tests, and manufactures physical hardware or embedded systems is highly preferred.

• Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship/support.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexible engagement structures.

• Work on a flexible schedule.

• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise.

• Competitive compensation.

• Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers.

• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early based on needs and performance.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.

• Referral payments of up to $480 for successful referrals (referral program).