1 year ago
Base Salary
$145k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own firmware architecture for multi-core embedded subsystems and define hardware datapath engines with associated firmware control.
- Partition designs across hardware, firmware, and software while collaborating with ASIC/SoC, digital design, verification, board, and systems teams.
- Bring up RTOS environments, BSPs, drivers, schedulers, bootloaders, secure boot, key provisioning, recovery, and rollback flows.
- Implement and validate low-power firmware strategies involving clock and power domains, sleep states, retention, and wake sources.
- Develop drivers and middleware for USB, JTAG, I²C, SPI, GPIO, UART, DMA, and other hardware modules.
- Build production firmware and support transitions from prototyping platforms through manufacturing.
- Create Windows and Linux host-side drivers, diagnostics, provisioning utilities, and kernel/user-space interfaces.
- Define unit, hardware-in-the-loop, integration, and continuous-integration testing workflows and enforce quality through reviews and static analysis.
- Support board bring-up and validation using schematics, layouts, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
- Contribute to functional safety requirements, traceability, FMEA, fault trees, and safety mechanisms.
- Document designs and make architecture and implementation decisions amid ambiguity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience as a firmware, hardware/SoC architect, or senior embedded firmware engineer.
- Experience with multiple embedded processor subsystems and integration into ASIC/SoC platforms.
- Strong understanding of computer architecture and operating-system principles, including memory, concurrency, scheduling, interrupts, and caches.
- Experience selecting and bringing up RTOS platforms such as FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or ThreadX, including BSPs, bootloaders, and startup code.
- Experience with low-power firmware design and measurement, secure boot, signing, key management, recovery, OTA updates, and rollback.
- Experience developing drivers and interfacing with USB, JTAG, I²C, SPI, UART, and DMA hardware modules.
- Firmware and driver development experience for Windows and Linux.
- Ability to read schematics and layouts and perform hardware/firmware co-debugging.
- Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, and network or protocol analyzers.
- Experience implementing test-driven development, unit and integration test frameworks, and Git-based continuous-integration workflows.
- Experience defining hardware datapath engines coupled with firmware control loops.
- Automotive or functional-safety experience, such as ISO 26262, or experience in a similar safety-critical domain.
- Experience with performance and power profiling, constrained-system optimization, Python, CMake, Yocto, or automation tooling for hardware-in-the-loop rigs.
- Knowledge of MISRA-C, CERT C, static analysis, and coverage tools.
- Strong written and spoken communication and the ability to make sound tradeoffs with limited information.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- FSA and HSA.
- PTO and 14 paid company holidays.
- 401(k) with a 3% contribution.
- Stock options.
- Life insurance and disability coverage.
About Lumotive
Lumotive develops CMOS-based Light Control Metasurface (LCM) beam-forming chips that digitally steer and shape light for solid-state LiDAR and other 3D sensing. It sells semiconductor devices and design support to module makers and solution integrators serving consumer, automotive, and industrial markets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the privately held company’s first commercial deployments are in compact LiDAR sensors for robotics, mobility, and smart infrastructure.