Silicon Dreams
Founding Firmware Engineer
$125K–$250K
Menlo Park · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; engineering club, commercial and research internships included.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related (preferred).
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration support.
About the job
Own firmware and host-side software for hardware, spanning embedded sensing and motor control through data capture, testing, and production release.
What you'll do
- Build and bring up bare-metal and RTOS firmware, peripheral drivers, sensors, actuators, and motor-control systems.
- Develop Linux host tools and data pipelines for capture, streaming, logging, analysis, and automated testing.
- Own boot and fault recovery, firmware validation and release, observability, and cross-functional hardware/software integration.
What they ask for
- 2+ years bringing up real-time embedded systems from scratch; engineering clubs and commercial or research internships count.
- Strong C and/or C++ embedded development skills across bare-metal and RTOS, including deterministic timing and low-latency execution.
- Experience developing drivers and defining hardware/software interfaces; proficiency in Python and comfort with Linux host-side development.
- Debugging skills across hardware and software, including use of an oscilloscope, logic analyzer, and serial debug.
Nice to have
- Experience with sensor fusion, filtering, motor control, RF or wireless protocols, real-time control, or high-throughput data acquisition.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, collaborative embedded workflows, or backgrounds in robotics, mechatronics, and physical-systems integration.
Pay
$125,000 – $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Python, Linux, SPI, I2C, RTOS, Git
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