Senior Firmware Engineer

The role

You will own embedded systems across the robot from initial hardware bring-up through firmware development, testing, and validation. You will work with new board designs, read schematics, develop device drivers, and debug problems across hardware and software.

What you will do

• Bring up new custom PCBs and validate processors, sensors, peripherals, and communication interfaces
• Develop device drivers and firmware features for new and existing hardware
• Debug issues across firmware and electrical hardware
• Design and validate communication over interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and USB
• Characterize, test, and validate firmware and board designs
• Work with electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers to define requirements

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of professional firmware or device driver development experience
• Strong embedded systems and firmware fundamentals
• Strong C programming skills
• Experience developing firmware in RTOS environments
• Strong hardware bring-up experience, including reading schematics and debugging new boards
• Experience with low-level interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and CAN
• Comfortable debugging with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
• Experience developing device drivers and working with microcontrollers and peripherals
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices
• Ability to work effectively across electrical, mechanical, controls, and software teams
• BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience

Nice to have

• Familiarity with compilers and toolchains targeting ARM Cortex architectures
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages
• Experience with configuration and release management, continuous integration, unit testing, and regression testing
• Familiarity with time synchronization between devices
• Experience with Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols
• Signal processing experience
• Robotics experience

About the company

Reflex Robotics builds general-purpose, AI-powered humanoid robots for the toughest jobs in industry. They are a four year old startup backed by Khosla Ventures.