Firmware Engineer

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) to meet customer and regulatory requirements.

About Us

We are pioneering modular motion technologies to power the next generation of innovation for Industrial, Aerospace, and Defense. We craft exclusive motion control components that propel these sectors into the future. We are well-funded, revenue-generating, and located in Torrance, CA, where we recently moved into a new large hangar facility. We offer relocation assistance and great benefits.

About The Role

We need an embedded software engineer who can work across firmware and hardware. This is not a pure software role—the candidate will use oscilloscopes, read schematics, and debug board-level issues alongside writing C code.

Responsibilities

• Write firmware in C for STM32 microcontrollers, particularly but not limited to motor controllers.
• End-to-end development: derive requirements, design/architect to satisfy requirements, implement, and verify.
• Bring up new hardware and debug issues alongside motor-control and electrical engineers.
• Support the mechanical team with new actuator design and verification.
• Example real task: Diagnose why an Ethernet PHY reports CRC errors by analyzing RMII clock timing with an oscilloscope, reading the PHY datasheet, and identifying a board design issue.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship (required for defense projects).
• Comfortable working on defense-related projects.
• 2-3 years of embedded C programming experience.
• RTOS experience (ThreadX, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar).
• Communication interface experience: must have worked with at least 2-3 of: SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, Ethernet, BiSS-C.
• Embedded peripheral experience: comfortable with Analog-to-Digital Converters, Timers, Memories (Flash, EEPROM, FRAM, etc.).
• Hardware debugging: oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer experience.
• Software debugging: JTAG/SWD debugger experience (J-Link, Lauterbach, Ozone, etc.).
• Schematic reading: able to look at a circuit diagram and understand signal flow.
• Majority on-site presence required (at least 4 out of 5 days).

Nice to Haves

• DO-178C / DAL certification experience (aerospace software safety standard).
• Motor control background: FOC, Space Vector Modulation, current loops.
• Sensor experience: Hall sensors, incremental encoders, absolute encoders.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation: $120,000 to $140,000 base salary + equity.
• Exceptional healthcare benefits: medical is 100% covered by the company.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401K.