Senior Firmware Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Firmware Engineer is an onsite role based in Redmond, WA, with a salary range of $180,000 - $230,000 per year. This role supports a robotics company building autonomous systems. This role exists to design and build the embedded systems powering autonomous machines and fleet operations. The engineer will develop production-quality embedded C++ software, connecting computing platforms to sensors, actuators, and safety systems to ensure reliable machine behavior.

What you'll do

• Design and implement firmware for a next-generation embedded hardware platform
• Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers and system services
• Build interfaces for sensors, actuators, ECUs and other machine components
• Work with CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I²C, UART and other communication protocols
• Develop deterministic real-time and near-real-time control paths
• Write clean, efficient and testable embedded C++ code
• Implement watchdogs, error handling and fail-safe behavior
• Design firmware that remains reliable through hardware faults, communication loss and environmental variability
• Build logging, tracing, telemetry and embedded diagnostic capabilities
• Lead firmware bring-up for new boards, daughterboards and related hardware
• Partner with electrical and mechanical engineers to validate designs and interfaces
• Diagnose difficult issues spanning firmware, hardware and system integration
• Perform root-cause analysis on failures found during testing or field deployment
• Optimize timing, memory consumption and CPU utilization
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, regression testing and field validation
• Improve firmware CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and development workflows
• Establish standards for firmware safety, reliability and maintainability
• Mentor other engineers on embedded development and debugging practices.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

contract

day shift

redmond wa

senior firmware engineer

robotics

c++

embedded

autonomous

engineering

jobot

$180k-$230k

weekend required

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical/Dental/Vision, 401(k), Life insurance, Equity

Why this role

Rapidly growing robotics company, Autonomous systems for heavy machinery, Competitive compensation + equity

About the employer

Jobot is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.