Senior Firmware Engineer
Reflex Robotics2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Bring up custom PCBs and validate processors, sensors, peripherals, and communication interfaces.
- Develop device drivers and firmware features for new and existing hardware.
- Debug issues across firmware and electrical hardware.
- Design and validate communication over Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and USB.
- Characterize, test, and validate firmware and board designs.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers to define requirements and ensure reliable hardware-software integration.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional firmware or device-driver development experience.
- Strong embedded-systems and firmware fundamentals and strong C programming skills.
- Experience developing firmware in RTOS environments.
- Strong hardware bring-up experience, including reading schematics and debugging new boards.
- Experience with I2C, SPI, UART, USB, CAN, device drivers, microcontrollers, and peripherals.
- Ability to debug with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Strong understanding of software-engineering best practices and ability to work across electrical, mechanical, controls, and software teams.
- BS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Preferred: familiarity with ARM Cortex compilers and toolchains, Python or other scripting languages, configuration and release management, continuous integration, unit testing, regression testing, time synchronization, Ethernet and TCP/IP, signal processing, and robotics.
Benefits
- Opportunity to help build a flagship humanoid robotics company and work on the full robot stack.
- Compensation is $200,000–$250,000 depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.
About Reflex Robotics
Reflex Robotics builds low-cost wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive work in manufacturing and logistics. The company designs and manufactures its systems in-house, coupling hardware with AI trained from large-scale demonstration data, and sells robots to industrial operators. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, it is privately held and raised seed funding in 2023; its core team previously led work on Boston Dynamics’ Stretch and Tesla production lines.