Firmware Engineer
📌Chicago, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
At Somewear Labs , that’s the kind of impact our technology delivers. We support those who venture beyond the limits of cellular connectivity with a satellite-enabled platform built for the world’s most demanding environments. Our customers include helicopter paramedics, backcountry explorers, wildland firefighters, and U.S. Special Forces operators.
We’re looking for a Firmware Engineer to help us push the boundaries of what’s possible in off-grid communication. You’ll work at the intersection of custom hardware, satellite technology, LTE, Bluetooth, sensors, and mesh networking — building software that directly powers life-saving missions in the field.
Why this role matters
Firmware is the beating heart of our platform. Every feature you ship helps ensure critical information reaches the right people at the right time, even in the harshest environments. As an early team member at a Series A company, you’ll have outsized ownership and the chance to shape our products and engineering culture for years to come.
What you’ll do
- Develop embedded software in C, C++, and Rust targeting Zephyr RTOS
- Take features from concept → shipped product on our custom hardware
- Debug and validate new board designs, drivers, and firmware builds
- Implement device drivers and help with board bring-up
- Collaborate with electrical engineers on hardware design and validation
- Partner with mobile engineers to evolve our communication protocols
-
Establish and refine engineering standards, tools, and processes for embedded development
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years of firmware development on constrained embedded systems
- Experience with wireless protocols (WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, mesh networking)
- Familiarity with cellular networks (LTE, 5G)
- Hands-on experience with RTOS (Zephyr or similar) and hardware interfaces (UART, SPI, I²C)
- Comfort debugging embedded systems with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and power tools
- A passion for building technology where reliability and safety are non-negotiable
-
Willingness to dive deep across the stack and take ownership from idea to product
- Mission-driven work: your code helps save lives in real-world operations
- Ownership from day one: build end-to-end features that shape the product and user experience
- Challenging problems: from power-constrained firmware to resilient off-grid protocols
- Close-knit, ambitious team: collaborate with engineers who are motivated, curious, and fun to work with
-
Direct impact: access to senior leadership and a role in shaping engineering culture at a fast-growing company
Ready to design firmware that keeps people connected when it matters most? Apply now and join us in building the future of mission-critical connectivity.
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.
Other similar jobs
Firmware Engineer, Amazon Robotics
@ Amazon, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Senior Firmware Engineer
@ Badger Meter, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Firmware Engineer
@ Baker Hughes, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Principal Firmware Engineer
@ CHEP, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Firmware Engineer II
@ Brady Corporation, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Sr. Software Engineer Security
@ Cisco, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Principal Firmware Verification Engineer
@ Collins Aerospace, 📍United States 🇺🇸
AMI Smart Grid - Senior Firmware Engineer
@ Corinex, 📍United States 🇺🇸
TeleOp Embedded Engineer
@ Figure, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Senior Engineer, Firmware
@ Flock Safety, 📍United States 🇺🇸
-
Employment
⏱︎ full-time
-
Experience
🧙♂️ mid-level
-
Working model
hybrid
-
Skills
-
Industry
-
Find similar jobs
Firmware Engineer, Amazon Robotics
@ Amazon, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Senior Firmware Engineer
@ Badger Meter, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Firmware Engineer
@ Baker Hughes, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Principal Firmware Engineer
@ CHEP, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Firmware Engineer II
@ Brady Corporation, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Sr. Software Engineer Security
@ Cisco, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Principal Firmware Verification Engineer
@ Collins Aerospace, 📍United States 🇺🇸
AMI Smart Grid - Senior Firmware Engineer
@ Corinex, 📍United States 🇺🇸
TeleOp Embedded Engineer
@ Figure, 📍United States 🇺🇸
Senior Engineer, Firmware
@ Flock Safety, 📍United States 🇺🇸