Senior Staff Firmware Engineer
📌Berkeley, CA, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
💰 170300
In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States. Trial production of our iron-air batteries has already begun, and this year, production will take off to high volumes at our new factory in West Virginia.
Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing - might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.
Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.
Role Description
Form Energy is hiring a Senior Staff Firmware Engineer to drive the development of a productized battery management and control system. As part of our firmware team, you will write the firmware to bring our Multi-Day Storage battery system to life. This is an exciting opportunity to use your expertise to help shape and be part of the growth of a fast-moving company with breakthrough technology and an incredible mission!
What You'll Do
- Lead development on microcontroller firmware for embedded systems, sensors, and power flow control circuitry for our Battery Management System (BMS).
- Lead product deployment and field activities, including troubleshooting and debugging firmware in field environments to ensure performance and reliability.
- Be a key member of the Systems Team to define concepts, down-select designs, and optimize the new groundbreaking technology.
- Derive software and hardware specifications and design features based on product requirements to meet UL compliance and functional safety standards.
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Adhere to and raise the bar on the firmware engineering processes and best practices, including code reviews and mentorship, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
- 12+ years of experience in firmware development for embedded and RTOS systems; direct experience working on firmware for battery management or power electronics is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred.
- Expertise using C/C++ for embedded systems in real-time, multithreaded control applications.
- Extensive experience in peripheral communication protocols like I2C, SPI, and component-to-component protocols like Modbus and CAN.
- Experience with software compliance standards (i.e., MISRA, ISO 26262, CMMI, ASPICE, or UL 1998).
- Strong knowledge in electrical engineering concepts, including the ability to read and understand schematics and troubleshoot hardware interfaces.
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and methodologies, such as Agile, and CI/CD.
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Proven track record in developing production software for battery management systems, power systems, robotics, or other relevant industries.
When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed.
To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.
Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.
Compensation Range: $170.3K - $222.3K
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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