Position Summary, Responsibilities, and Expectations:
- Own the design and decision-making processes for embedded hardware firmware to ensure timely delivery of next-generation products, meeting product and marketing requirements.
- Provide creative, innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges, from hardware design to firmware implementation.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers, mechanical engineers, product managers, designers, manufacturing teams, and external suppliers to ensure seamless integration and successful product development and launch.
- Maintain clear and regular communication across all teams, providing status updates, reporting risks, and managing change control throughout the development cycle.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution efforts for hardware and firmware issues within embedded systems.
- Prioritize tasks, deliverables, and issues, while managing resource constraints and responding to change requests in line with scheduling needs.
- Support the EVT (Engineering Verification Testing), DVT (Design Verification Testing), OOBE (Out of Box Experience), and regulatory teams throughout the product development process.
- Contribute to cost-reduction initiatives through firmware and hardware optimization.
- Support testing, validation, and verification of embedded systems and firmware functionality.
- Review EE design documentation (e.g., schematics, BOMs) and create firmware design specifications.
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Participate in cross-functional meetings, including exit reviews, core team sessions, and escalation meetings.
- Excellent proficiency and strong attention to detail in embedded hardware firmware design, development, and documentation.
- Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and prioritization skills.
- Excellent ability to write bare-metal firmware for resource-constrained environments.
- In-depth knowledge of MCUs, specifically 32-bit ARM Cortex or similar architectures, as well as legacy 8-bit microcontrollers (e.g., 8051, Freescale, Atmel, Cypress, etc.).
- In-depth knowledge of various communication protocols such as USB 3.0 (including Alt mode), RS485, and other serial interfaces.
- Strong proficiency in C, C++, or assembly for writing efficient, hardware-specific firmware code and firmware test tools.
- Strong proficiency in interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and (especially) displays and other peripherals via SPI, I2C, UART, MIPI, DSI, etc.
- Strong understanding of memory hierarchies and allocation techniques as well as knowledge of memory constrains in embedded systems.
- Strong proficiency in knowledge of bootloaders, secure firmware updates, and flash memory management.
- Strong skills in communicating, writing, reviewing, and approving firmware specifications, documentation, and design validation procedures.
- Proficiency with versioning tools and excellent employment of good software engineering practices.
- Proficiency with IDEs and compilers
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve embedded system issues, including firmware bugs, hardware faults, and interface problems.
- Ability to conduct firmware unit tests and system integration testing for embedded solutions.
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Experience with embedded debugging tools, such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 3+ years of industry experience in embedded hardware firmware development.
- Experience working with OEM/ODM suppliers and managing firmware release cycles is a plus.
- Experience in working with manufacturing environments and factory floor requirements is a plus.
- Experience with PDM/PLM systems is a plus.
- Project management experience is a plus.
- Passion for PC hardware and gaming is a plus.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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