Firmware Engineer - Advanced Stealth AI Hearables
📌Rockville, MD, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
on-site
Location: Rockville, MD (On-site only)
Employment Type: Full-time
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level
Department: Engineering / Embedded Software / Product R&D
Industry: Defense | Wearables | AI
Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder required
About The Role
We're seeking a Firmware Engineer with a passion for low-level development and deep systems integration. You'll be responsible for bringing our next-gen AI hearables to life-building high-performance firmware that powers audio, data, and sensor systems in the most demanding environments.
While we prefer candidates with 5+ years of experience, we will consider exceptional recent graduates with strong technical expertise and hands-on development work.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain firmware for audio, data, sensors, and AI-enhanced features
- Optimize firmware for low power consumption, high performance, and field reliability
- Implement OTA updates, voice interaction systems, and control logic
- Lead system validation, lab testing, and field debug operations
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Collaborate closely with hardware engineers, product teams, and end users from Special Forces units
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in embedded firmware development using C/C++
- Proven experience with ARM Cortex-M or similar microcontroller platforms
- Strong knowledge of communication protocols: Bluetooth, I2C, SPI, I2S, UART, USB
- Experience with bare-metal firmware development
- Proficiency in Python scripting for automation and testing
- Skilled with hardware debugging tools: SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
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A maker/hacker mindset - quick to prototype, test rigorously, and iterate intelligently
- Be at the forefront of stealth communications and AI integration
- Work on mission-critical tech for real-world operators
- Join a small, agile, high-impact team with direct access to the full product lifecycle
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Innovate without bureaucracy - your work will matter
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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