Dexmate
Senior Firmware Engineer, Robotics
$100K–$300K
Fremont Office · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience.
About the job
Owns the architecture, development, testing, and production release of low-level firmware for robot actuators, sensors, power systems, and real-time communication devices.
What you'll do
- Develop and validate firmware across the lifecycle, including board bring-up, drivers, real-time control, diagnostics, and updates.
- Build motor-control and communication firmware, with safety, reliability, testing, and field-debugging capabilities.
- Support manufacturing and deployment, and establish firmware architecture, standards, and release practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of embedded firmware development in robotics, automotive, industrial automation, or complex consumer electronics, including shipping production-deployed products.
- Strong C and C++ skills in bare-metal and RTOS environments, plus deep embedded-systems fundamentals.
- Hands-on motor-control or actuator firmware experience and driver-level experience with embedded communication protocols.
- Experience with multiple MCU families, board bring-up, hardware-boundary debugging, and embedded laboratory tools.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling firmware to hundreds or thousands of deployed units, or developing bootloaders and secure update systems.
- Python experience, functional safety or embedded security standards familiarity, or hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
Pay
$100K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, ARM Cortex-M, TI C2000, STM32, Nordic nRF, EtherCAT, CAN/CAN FD
AI focus
Preferred: use AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex to accelerate implementation, test generation, debugging, documentation, and firmware-development workflows.
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