Open Vision Engineering
Firmware Engineer
$160K–$250K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Experience
- Any experience level; no minimum years of experience.
- Education
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and debug firmware for an AI voice recorder, bringing up hardware and peripherals and ensuring reliable device-to-host communication and recording.
What you'll do
- Read schematics and datasheets, bring up peripherals, and trace issues from app symptoms to drivers or hardware.
- Build maintainable firmware and tests that catch failures on real hardware.
- Turn intermittent field reports into reproducible issues and verified fixes, communicating across teams.
What they ask for
- Ability to read schematics and datasheets and bring up peripherals.
- Understanding of embedded-device communication with phones or other hosts over Bluetooth/BLE, USB, or Wi-Fi, or ability to learn quickly.
- Experience with Git, maintainable code, and tests for real hardware.
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Audio-device firmware experience; audio signal-path, codec, and audio-quality measurement experience.
- Experience with RTOS platforms, storage and recovery, low-power devices, secure updates, companion apps, or product manufacturing.
Pay
$160K–$250K (base salary); $160K – $250K (type not stated)
Tools
Bluetooth/BLE, USB, Wi-Fi, Git, Zephyr, ARM Cortex-M, Actions Semiconductor, Python
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