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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer
$182K–$230K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 25, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional embedded systems and real-time control applications experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develop and support low-level firmware for autonomous transport vehicles, including custom boards, sensors, actuators, and drive-by-wire systems.
What you'll do
- Develop firmware for custom boards and extend existing codebases to support new features and vehicle platforms.
- Read schematics and datasheets; collaborate across hardware and software teams to define hardware specifications and interfaces.
- Support vehicle installations and troubleshoot hardware and firmware; build quality-control test infrastructure for boards and harnesses.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship professional experience in embedded systems and real-time control applications.
- Strong proficiency in C and Python in Linux development environments and ARM32 toolchains (such as GCC); production-grade firmware experience interfacing with physical systems.
- Expert ability to interpret and troubleshoot electrical schematics and datasheets, plus hands-on embedded-system, vehicle-harness, or CAN bus debugging experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with safety-critical embedded systems, real-time operating systems (RTOS), or autonomous vehicle applications.
Pay
$182,000 - $230,000 per year (USD, base salary)
Tools
C, Python, Linux, ARM32, GCC, CAN bus, RTOS
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