Founding Firmware Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco office
- Listed
- Today
About the role
Hi, I’m Nik. I’m looking for a world-class founding firmware engineer to build Omi with me.
- Omi is AI for your real life.
- Think: wearable memory, voice-first interface, the reverse iPhone.
- In the past 10 months, we’ve:
- Grown to 300K software users
- Hit 100M+ organic video views
- Built 3 working hardware devices
Now I’m ready to go deeper - and I need you.
What You’ll Do
As the first firmware engineer, you’ll
- Own firmware for omi devices
- Hack other devices to integrate them with omi ecosystem (i.e. apple watch, meta glasses, etc...)
- Help shape product direction, technical stack, and even culture
- Work directly with me every day - we’ll build and launch together
This is not a “here’s what to do” job - this is “what should we do next?”
Someone who’s built and shipped something impressive. For example
- Wrote firmware for 1k+ devices
- Or Built a product used by 1M+ people
- Or built something with >$1M revenue
- Or raised >$1M as a founder / solo builder
- Or deeply technical + insanely fast - even if early in your journey
You don’t need to check every box - but one really strong signal is enough.
Tech Stack (So Far)
- Flutter (might move to React soon)
- Python / Flask
- Firmware: C, Nordic chips
- BLE
Why This Might Be the One
- You’ll get lots of equity and full ownership over technical direction
- Work on actual AI hardware, not just apps
- Build something that people already love - and want more of
- Help people think and live better with ambient, embodied AI
- Let’s make humans 1000x smarter with AI by 2026.
- Let’s make robots help in every apartment by 2028.
- Let's create the metaverse
- II personally check every candidate!
- If I didn’t respond, something was off.
About Me
- 26 y.o.
- Born on an island in the Pacific (Russia), now in SF
- Thiel Fellow
- Sold 2 startups - scaled the last to $4M ARR, $3M raised, acquired by Toptal
- Built the first Omi prototypes (hardware, mobile)
- Raised $7M+ total
- Managed teams across 3 continents
- Drove 100M+ organic impressions for Omi
From Optimetrics, Inc.'s careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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