Firmware Engineer, Robotics

About this role

Lead firmware architecture for next-generation robotics hardware, owning embedded systems design from boot through production. You'll balance rapid prototyping with safety-critical reliability, partnering across hardware and AI teams to bring innovative robot systems to market.

What you'll do

• Design and architect embedded firmware stack including RTOS, boot, peripheral control, power management, and diagnostics
• Define safety-critical mechanisms, fault detection, recovery strategies, and safe-state behaviors
• Lead hardware bring-up and set execution pace for rapid iteration and learning
• Establish engineering standards for reliability, fault tolerance, observability, and maintainability
• Build validation and testing strategies including unit, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, and failure-injection tests
• Mentor firmware engineers and drive culture of technical rigor with practical judgment

What they're looking for

• Embedded firmware development in iterative environments
• Rust programming language (especially embedded systems)
• Real-time systems and low-level hardware concepts
• Safety-critical system design and fault tolerance
• Hardware bring-up and end-to-end ownership
• Architecture leadership for complex embedded products
• Cross-disciplinary communication
• AI-assisted coding tools (Codex, Claude, etc.)

Benefits

• Based in San Francisco with 4 days/week in-office expectation
• Relocation assistance provided