Senior/Staff Firmware Engineer
BrightAI Corporation2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain ultra-low-power embedded firmware.
- Develop drivers and low-level firmware for MCUs, sensors, and wireless modules.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to define power budgets and validate low-power designs.
- Implement and test sleep modes, clock gating, dynamic voltage scaling, and other power-management techniques.
- Perform power profiling and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, energy analyzers, and current probes.
- Optimize code size and execution efficiency in resource-constrained environments.
- Develop firmware in no-OS or lightweight RTOS environments.
- Lead integration of I2C, SPI, UART, and other embedded communication protocols.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, technical documentation, and embedded standards compliance.
- Develop and maintain automated build and release pipelines where applicable.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 7 years of embedded software development experience, emphasizing low-power design.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems.
- Hands-on experience with low-power microcontrollers such as ARM Cortex-M series, nRF52, Ambiq, or MSP430.
- Familiarity with RTOS concepts and lightweight operating systems such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
- Deep understanding of hardware/software interaction and power-management techniques.
- Experience with Git and software development workflows.
- Preferred experience with BLE, Zigbee, LoRa, PCB schematics, battery-operated or energy-harvesting devices, and Python or Bash scripting for test automation.
- Preferred experience with linear algebra, digital signal processing, machine learning, Edge Impulse, OpenCV, PyTorch, hardware abstraction layers, sensor fusion, and modular or event-driven architectures.
- Preferred experience developing and scaling CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
About BrightAI Corporation
BrightAI builds an AIoT platform and autonomous inspection solutions that connect sensors, drones, and edge devices to monitor and manage physical infrastructure. Its Stateful platform supports predictive diagnostics, digital twins, and AI-enabled workflows for operators in water, power, gas compression, HVAC, manufacturing, and pest control. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on retrofitting legacy systems and deploying robotics at real infrastructure sites.