Sr. Level Firmware Engineer

About the role

Senior engineers are expected to serve as technical leaders and trusted cross-functional partners who contribute not only through individual technical excellence but also by mentoring others, improving engineering processes, and driving successful product execution across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the production firmware organization, including technical direction, execution planning, mentoring, hiring, and performance management.
• Drive firmware strategy and roadmap in partnership with product management, silicon, hardware, AI software, and system architecture teams.
• Define product requirements, firmware architecture, development milestones, and release plans for embedded AI products from concept through production.
• Own firmware project execution, including planning, prioritization, risk management, resource allocation, schedule tracking, and cross-functional coordination.
• Translate product and customer requirements into scalable firmware solutions that enable high-performance embedded AI platforms.
• Oversee the design, development, integration, and optimization of embedded software for real-time and AI-driven applications.
• Guide firmware development for FPGA and ASIC platforms, ensuring robust hardware/software integration and successful product bring-up.
• Lead the development of firmware, device drivers, and platform software supporting machine learning acceleration on embedded hardware.
• Drive system-level optimization for performance, latency, power efficiency, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to establish development processes, coding standards, quality metrics, CI/CD, testing, and release practices for production firmware.
• Support customer engagements, product launches, and field issue resolution as required.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of embedded systems experience, including technical leadership or engineering management responsibilities.
• Proven experience leading firmware teams through complete product development cycles from definition to commercial deployment.
• Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional projects involving hardware, silicon, software, AI, and product management teams.
• Experience defining product requirements, development roadmaps, engineering schedules, and execution plans.
• Strong understanding of embedded firmware architecture for microcontroller- and SoC-based systems.
• Experience with RTOS-based firmware architectures and integration (e.g., Zephyr, FreeRTOS).
• Solid understanding of low-level software, device drivers, hardware interfaces, and system bring-up.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with sufficient technical depth to provide architectural guidance and conduct design reviews.
• Experience delivering production firmware for commercial embedded products.
• Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to balance technical excellence, product priorities, and delivery schedules.
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Hands-on debugging and performance optimization experience is a plus.

Pay

Salary range: $230,000 - $300,000 per year.