Firmware Engineer

About the role

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) to meet customer and regulatory requirements

A couple other things

• We are open to relocating you
• We have great benefits
• We are well funded, and already generating revenue
• We are located in beautiful Hawthorne, CA and just moved into a new large hangar facility

About the role

We need an embedded software engineer who can work across firmware and hardware. This is not a pure software role - the candidate will use oscilloscopes, read schematics, and debug board-level issues alongside writing C code.

What you'll do

• Writing firmware in C for STM32 microcontrollers, particularly but not limited to motor controllers
• End to end development: derive requirements, design/architect to satisfy requirements, implementation and verification.
• Bringing up new hardware and debugging issues alongside motor-control and electrical engineers
• Support mechanical team with new actuator design and verification
• Example real task: Diagnosing why an Ethernet PHY reports CRC errors by analyzing R MII clock timing with an oscilloscope, reading the PHY datasheet, and identifying a board design issue.

What you need

• U.S. Citizenship - Required for defense projects
• Comfortable working on defense-related projects
• 2-3 years embedded C programming experience
• RTOS experience - ThreadX, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar
• Communication interface experience - Must have worked with at least 2-3 of: SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, Ethernet, BiSS-C
• Embedded peripheral experience - Must be comfortable with Analog-to- Digital Converters, Timers, Memories (Flash, EEPROM, fRAM etc.)
• Hardware debugging - Oscilloscope and/or logic analyzer experience
• Software debugging - JTAG/SWD debugger experience (J-Link, Lauterbach, Ozone, etc.)
• Schematic reading - Able to look at a circuit diagram and understand signal flow
• On-site - Majority on-site presence required (at least 4 out of 5 days)

Nice to haves

• DO-178C / DAL certification experience (aerospace software safety standard)
• Motor control background: FOC, Space Vector Modulation, current loops
• Sensor experience: Hall sensors, incremental encoders, absolute encoders

What we have to offer

• We are not just building components.
• We are reshaping the future of the Aerospace and Defense component industry, which is a $300B+ market!
• Come join us and help build next generation systems that will make a massive impact at global scale.

• We offer competitive compensation: $120,000 to $140,000 base salary + equity
• Exceptional healthcare benefits, Medical is 100% covered by the company
• Flexible PTO
• 401K
• More to come!