Member of Technical Staff: Firmware, Embedded, and Functional Safety (Robotics)

Location: Cambridge, MA, United States

Company

Building general-purpose robots for use in homes, workplaces, factories, farms, and other environments.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain C/C++ firmware for motor controllers, sensors, power management systems, and other robotic subsystems.
• Bring up new boards, develop device drivers, validate peripherals, and debug hardware/software issues with lab equipment.
• Build bare-metal and RTOS-based real-time software for control loops, safety monitoring, timing-sensitive communication, and resource-constrained hardware.
• Implement and validate EtherCAT, Ethernet, CAN/CAN-FD, RS-485, SPI, I2C, and UART interfaces.
• Create diagnostics, logging, test utilities, and automated workflows to improve firmware reliability and observability.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers on interfaces, system troubleshooting, design tradeoffs, code reviews, planning, and mentoring.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional embedded software experience, including shipped robotics-related products.
• Strong C/C++ skills for bare-metal and RTOS-based embedded systems.
• Deep understanding of microcontrollers, onboard computers, sensors, cameras, actuators, motor controllers, and fieldbus communication.
• Experience with board bring-up, device drivers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and hardware/software integration.
• Experience with control loops, timing-sensitive communication, fault handling, and safety monitoring.
• Ability to work across hardware, controls, and software teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with humanoid, manipulation, mobile, or other complex robotic systems.
• Experience delivering functional safety software and familiarity with IEC 61508.
• Experience with motor control, power systems, sensor integration, safety systems, or distributed embedded systems.
• Experience with firmware test infrastructure, CI/CD, diagnostics, logging, OTA updates, or production validation workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional engineering environment grounded in collaboration and humility.
• Annual cash bonus and company equity.
• Company-subsidized insurance programs and 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO and daily lunch.
• Employment authorization is verified through E-Verify after an offer is made.