Firmware Intern (C/C++)

Location: On-site at 1600 Bridge Pkwy, Redwood City, California, United States; in-person attendance required

Salary: $33/hour

Company

hirify.global designs, manufactures, and operates smart weather balloons and uses their atmospheric data to improve weather intelligence and climate-related decision-making.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain low-level drivers and libraries for chips, modules, and atmospheric sensors.
• Own and improve the custom Amslah open-source RTOS hardware abstraction layer.
• Optimize custom sensor hardware and calibration infrastructure for low power consumption and extreme cold.
• Collaborate with hardware R&D engineers to improve meteorological measurement accuracy.
• Design fault-tolerant systems that recover gracefully from unexpected conditions.
• Debug complex issues across hardware and software.

Requirements

• Experience programming, shipping, and maintaining hardware in real-world settings.
• Fluent C/C++ and Python, with experience writing low-level drivers for multiple chips.
• Comfort reading PCB schematics and working across hardware and software boundaries.
• Ability to formulate hypotheses and run experiments to understand system behavior.
• Strong communication, reasoning, trade-off analysis, and debugging skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with FPGAs and HDL.
• Knowledge of RF systems and wireless protocols.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong undergraduate-level physics knowledge.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on vertically integrated weather technology spanning balloon hardware, sensors, firmware, and atmospheric data.
• Rapid iteration and tactical experimentation are valued.
• Applications are accepted year-round and reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of hardware and software engineers.