Firmware Engineer
📌Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
⏱︎ contract
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 1100
on-site
Some code can afford to crash.
Yours can't.
We're building a real-time, performance-critical embedded platform where latency isn’t just a UX issue—it’s the difference between signal integrity and total system failure.
As part of a growing cross-disciplinary engineering team, you'll be helping develop low-level firmware for a next-gen wireless platform built on Nordic chipsets, custom SoCs, and Zephyr RTOS. This is true real-time embedded development, with tight timing constraints and no margin for dropped packets.
What You'll Be Doing
- Building and optimising firmware for low-power, high-reliability devices
- Working across RF data transfer, interrupt-driven systems, and embedded protocols
- Architecting and maintaining Zephyr-based firmware stacks
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Collaborating closely with hardware, RF, and embedded teams to align system-level performance
- C/C++ skills strong enough to survive compiler hell and memory constraints
- Real-world experience with real-time operating systems (especially Zephyr)
- Familiarity with Nordic chipsets or similar RF-capable MCUs
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A mindset that prioritises reliability, determinism, and tight feedback loops
- Projects where any delay or dropout had real-world consequences
- Prior work on distributed embedded systems or custom wireless protocols
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Experience bringing up new SoC platforms and establishing clean codebase foundations
Contract: 12 months initially, with a high likelihood of extension/conversion depending on roadmap.
Rates: Up to $1100/day
Thaís Amorim - thais@theonset.com.au
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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