Sr. Firmware Engineer

Senior Firmware Engineer — Motor Control & Connected Products

Wisconsin | Direct Hire |

Up to ~$130K base + bonus + signing bonus + relocation assistance

Own the firmware. Not a module, not a slice. The whole thing.

We're hiring a Senior Firmware Engineer for the world's largest manufacturer in its category. Recently IPO'd, over a century of engineering behind it, and growing. This team builds every control board that ships inside their products, in house, from bare metal up.

What you'd own:

• Full-lifecycle firmware in C: architecture, low-level drivers, bootloaders, comms stacks, real-time control
• Motor drive firmware and real-time control logic on bare-metal and RTOS (FreeRTOS)
• CAN, Modbus, UART, SPI, I2C
• Hardware debugging at the bench: JTAG/SWD, scopes, logic analyzers
• Mentoring the engineers coming up behind you, with real input on MCU and component selection

Why people stay:

This isn't a job-hopper shop. The team is hiring because product development is growing, not because people left. Engineers here build 10 and 15 year careers, and the manager came up through the ranks himself. Your firmware ships inside physical products used every day, worldwide.

The practical stuff:

• $102K–$126K base + 8% bonus, so up to ~$136K total
• Direct hire, full benefits, relocation assistance
• Onsite in east-central Wisconsin. Real engineering lab, hardware on the bench, low cost of living, no coastal commute

You'll need:

• 8+ years of embedded firmware in C
• Bare-metal and/or RTOS experience shipping production firmware
• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card (no sponsorship for this one)

MISRA-C, functional safety, or motor control experience is a big plus but not a dealbreaker.

If you've been waiting for a role where you own the firmware and the company isn't going anywhere, this is it.