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Firmware Engineer

Designs and implements firmware bridging AI hardware with physical devices, handling bring-up, control, diagnostics for real-time self-optimizing systems. Requires 5+ years in C/C++, RTOS/bare-metal, board bring-up, and debug tools.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement firmware that bridges AI-driven hardware with physical devices.
  • Work across bring-up, control, and diagnostics to enable adaptive, self-optimizing behavior in real-time systems.
  • Collaborate with electrical, systems, and verification engineers to develop embedded software that powers learning machines.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in C/C++, RTOS, or bare-metal firmware development.
  • Board bring-up, bootloaders, and driver development.
  • Debug tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
  • Control systems, sensor interfaces, or embedded ML.

Skills

C++, C, Rtos, Bare-Metal, Bootloaders, Jtag, Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Control Systems, Embedded Ml

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