Firmware Engineer (Embedded C/C++)

Location: Tennessee, United States

Salary: $138,500–$194,000 USD annual base salary, plus potential equity grants.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company designing and manufacturing high-performance unmanned systems and rebuilding the drone industrial base.

What you will do

• Translate mission requirements into production features with electrical, mechanical, and flight teams.
• Develop hardware architectures for peripheral systems.
• Develop, modify, and own embedded firmware for headsets, handsets, and future products.
• Implement video conversion, correction, storage, compression, and streaming functions across FPGA, MCU, and embedded Linux systems.
• Support product development from concept and rapid prototyping through full-scale production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong C/C++ skills for embedded systems, embedded Linux, bare-metal development, and STM32 microcontrollers.
• Significant FPGA experience, including clock-domain synchronization and familiarity with MCU/FPGA systems.
• Experience with peripherals and interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, DMA pipelines, ADC/DAC operation, and interrupts.
• Working knowledge of camera interfaces, video formats, compression standards, hardware debugging tools, Git workflows, and FPV drones or UAVs.

Nice to have

• High-speed data streaming between MCUs and FPGAs.
• Part 107 FPV drone pilot license.
• Soldering, 3D printing, and prototyping experience.
• RTOS experience with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar systems.
• GStreamer, FFmpeg, or FPGA/SoC video conversion experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, hands-on startup environment focused on rapid iteration and deployment.
• Opportunity to work on unmanned systems tested in combat and produced at scale.
• Highly competitive equity grants as part of total compensation.