Firmware

The role

You will architect and build embedded systems for robot sensing, actuation, communication, and safety functions. You will own products from initial board bring-up through system integration, validation, manufacturing ramp, and large-scale production.

What you will do

• Develop real-time firmware for robotic actuators, sensors, communications, and power systems.
• Own firmware from custom board bring-up through validation, production ramp, and sustained manufacturing.
• Build drivers and interfaces for ADCs, timers, PWM, DMA, SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, and other peripherals.
• Integrate encoders, force sensors, IMUs, current sensors, cameras, and other feedback devices.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, ML, test, and manufacturing engineers.
• Investigate hardware and firmware failures, manufacturing yield issues, and field reliability problems.

Required qualifications

• Strong embedded programming skills in C, C++, or Rust.
• Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers in bare-metal or RTOS environments.
• Strong understanding of interrupts, timing, concurrency, memory constraints, and real-time behavior.
• Experience bringing up custom hardware and debugging across firmware, electronics, and physical systems.
• Ability to read schematics, PCB layouts, and component datasheets.
• Familiarity with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and data-logging tools.
• Experience supporting physical products through validation, manufacturing ramp, or volume production.
• Strong ownership and ability to collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, and supplier teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on NPI experience taking embedded products through EVT, DVT, and PVT into mass production.
• Experience working directly with contract manufacturers, joint development manufacturers, or original design manufacturers.
• Experience developing factory programming, calibration, functional-test, and end-of-line test systems.
• Motor-control experience, including FOC, actuators, closed-loop control, or power electronics.
• Experience integrating production camera pipelines, including MIPI CSI-2, GMSL, ISP configuration and tuning, camera synchronization, and hardware-accelerated video encoding or compression.
• Bootloaders, secure provisioning, firmware updates, production release management, or HIL testing.

About the company

The Bot Company is a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco building a helpful robot for every home.