Senior Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware for AIM’s Generation 2 hardware platform using C++.
• Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers, and system services.
• Build interfaces to sensors, actuators, ECUs, and CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet communication buses.
• Ensure deterministic behavior across real-time and near-real-time control paths.
• Implement error handling, watchdogs, fail-safe mechanisms, and resilience to hardware and communication faults.
• Design telemetry, logging, and debugging capabilities for embedded systems.
• Diagnose system issues across firmware, hardware, and integration boundaries and drive root-cause analysis.
• Lead firmware bring-up for Gen2 boards, daughterboards, and interposers.
• Support HIL testing, regression testing, and field validation.
• Optimize timing, memory usage, and CPU utilization across embedded systems.
• Mentor engineers and improve firmware workflows, CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and reliability practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience in firmware or embedded systems development.
• Strong C++ experience in embedded or systems programming environments.
• Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers or embedded Linux systems.
• Experience with hardware interfaces and CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet communication protocols.
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries.
• Experience designing reliable and safety-conscious systems for real-world deployment.
• Proven ability to deliver production-quality firmware in cross-functional environments.
• Preferred: experience with safety-critical or real-time embedded systems, robotics, autonomy, or heavy equipment.
• Preferred: familiarity with RTOS or real-time scheduling concepts and hardware bring-up.
• Preferred: experience with OTA updates, bootloaders, secure updates, embedded observability, HIL testing, validation frameworks, or hardware test automation.

Benefits

• Opportunity to build firmware that directly controls autonomous heavy machinery.
• High-impact ownership of AIM’s Generation 2 hardware platform.
• Collaboration with engineers across hardware, software, autonomy, and field operations.
• Competitive compensation, equity, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and life insurance.
• Travel opportunities to real-world jobsites across the U.S. and globally.