Senior Firmware Engineer

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• Developing firmware from drivers to applications
• Developing user interfaces for consumers to interact with our hardware
• Supporting hardware and sensors with challenging real-world requirements
• Developing firmware tests and harnesses
• Developing reliable communication systems to the outside world
• Working with a multidiscipline team of Silicon Valley startup veterans

Candidate Requirements:

• Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years professional experience writing firmware in a real-time or embedded OS
• Expert C/C++ chops
• Generalist: from the metal to the user
• Kernel expertise
• Expertise and with common digital communication protocols (UART, I2C, SPI)
• Expert code and hardware level debugging skills (know your way around dev tools, oscilloscope and logic analyzers)
• Experience optimizing and characterizing CPU and hardware power consumption
• Ability to go from a sensor data sheet, to wiring serial connections, to working code

Bonus if you have:

• Developed for consumer wearables or medical devices
• Designed a custom PCB
• Signal processing skills
• Developed machine learning algorithms for sensor data
• Experience translating, optimizing, and validating algorithms into C
• LCD graphics / Touch Screen / UI development
• Certification experience with FCC and/or FDA