Founding Engineer - Firmware / Embedded Software
📌New York, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 115000
Root Access is an applied AI company helping develop mankind’s most important machines.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a Firmware Engineer who’s excited to break things, give blunt feedback, and help shape the developer tools they wish they had. You’ll be an internal user of our tools, write firmware for real dev boards, and validate AI-assisted workflows. You’ll also contribute to embedded projects for testing peripherals, validating board files, or exploring new toolchains.
What You’ll Do
- Write and debug firmware (e.g. iMX, LPC, etc ) using C/C++ or Rust.
- Develop our internal AI-powered tools to generate/configure firmware
- Help test features like pin mapping, driver generation, clock tree config, and build tool integrations.
- Provide structured feedback on usability, bugs, and edge cases (you’re part of the product loop).
- Build demo projects, scripts, or workflows that help us validate tool reliability and usability.
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Read datasheets and vendor docs to cross-verify model output (yep, still a thing).
- Have hands-on experience with microcontrollers (NXP, NRF, Infineon, etc.)
- Know your way around embedded peripherals: UART, I2C, SPI, GPIO, timers, DMA, Interrupts
- Worked with bare-metal, RTOS, embedded linux.
- Have worked with several toolchains (e.g., PlatformIO, STM32CubeIDE, Zephyr, Keil).
- Have worked in heavy machinery companies like John Deere, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, or other similar teams
- Are curious about how firmware dev tools could be better—and want to shape that future.
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(Bonus) Have tinkered with LLMs, AI dev tools, and have strong opinions about UI/UX
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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