Embedded Firmware Engineer (Robotics)

Location: Mountain View, United States

Salary: $150K–$225K per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops generalist intelligent humanoid robots across the hardware, robot systems, infrastructure, foundation models, and manufacturing stack.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain low-level firmware for real-time motion-control nodes across humanoid robot platforms.
• Design deterministic communication and synchronization layers over EtherCAT, targeting sub-millisecond cycle times.
• Select and tune RTOS configurations, optimize scheduling, interrupts, DMA paths, watchdogs, and recovery mechanisms.
• Implement safety mechanisms including Safe Torque Off, watchdogs, and heartbeat monitoring.
• Collaborate with Electronics, Controls, and Systems teams on timing budgets, data interfaces, HAL architecture, and actuator-control APIs.
• Build unit, hardware-in-the-loop, and integration tests; support actuator and sensor-board bring-up, debugging, and design reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Robotics, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of embedded firmware development experience for real-time control systems.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and low-level debugging with JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes.
• Experience with microcontroller firmware on ARM Cortex-M or similar architectures and with RTOS platforms such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
• Experience with low-level interfaces including I2C, SPI, Ethernet, USB, CAN, UART, PWM, ADC, and sensor interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to ship reliable, maintainable embedded software for safety-critical, real-time products.

Nice to have

• Embedded Linux, BSP development, Linux kernel programming, device trees, Kconfig, drivers, or kernel modules.
• GMSL2 and MIPI-CSI2 camera drivers using V4L2.
• Field-Oriented Control implementation for BLDC motor drives.
• Yocto Project and BitBake experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across the full robotics stack, from hardware and robot systems to AI infrastructure and foundation models.
• Join a heavily funded robotics company that has raised over $450 million.
• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Opportunity to grow from an MTS role with a clear progression path.