Staff Firmware Engineer

The role

Firmware engineers write firmware for robots mainboards and actuators. They lead board bring-up with manufacturing partners and work with mechanical, electrical, and ML teams.

What you will do

• Lead board bring-up with manufacturing partners from specification discovery through first boot.
• Write drivers and hardware abstraction layers for microcontrollers and actuators.
• Build and run automated hardware-in-the-loop tests across embodiments.
• Build the common firmware base for mainboards and actuators in Rust and C.
• Work with ML and mechanical teams to prototype and validate new sensors.

Required qualifications

• Have shipped production firmware to millions of devices.
• Have written production firmware in Rust, C, or both.
• Have debugged communication buses on real hardware.
• Have built or operated hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
• Have worked with contract manufacturers or OEMs to turn ambiguous requirements into a board layout.
• Have worked with electromechanical systems or cameras and optics, electrically, mechanically, or in software.
• Have working knowledge of electrical engineering and either field-oriented control or RF.

About the company

Watney builds and deploys autonomous robotic systems that increase the speed and capacity of buildout, starting with data centers.