Senior Embedded Firmware Design Engineer (Embedded Firmware)

Location: San Diego, California, USA — hybrid with 4 days in the office and Friday remote

Salary: $116,000–$200,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for consumer, computing, communications, industrial, and automotive applications.

What you will do

• Design, develop, verify, and optimize embedded firmware for low-power mixed-signal circuits and sensing SoCs.
• Develop rule-based and ML-based inference firmware, using AI-assisted development tools and evaluating AI-generated code.
• Define system, hardware-firmware, CPU, memory, and testability architectures, including diagnostic features.
• Implement pre-silicon simulation, unit and regression testing, debugging, emulation, and FPGA prototyping.
• Support silicon lab evaluation, performance characterization, post-silicon customer support, RMA analysis, and field issue resolution.
• Collaborate with hardware, analog, verification, application, and test teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of industry experience developing embedded firmware for mixed-signal integrated circuits.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Strong experience with C/C++, assembly, Python, bare-metal firmware, MCU architectures, and instruction sets, including ARM, RISC-V, PIC, or STM32.
• Knowledge of real-time embedded systems, signal processing, algorithms, hardware-firmware co-design, and power, speed, memory, and resource trade-offs.
• Experience with I2C, I3C, SPI, MIPI, JTAG, PCIe, version control, release management, integration, unit testing, and regression testing.
• Hands-on experience with development boards, FPGAs, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and multimeters.

Nice to have

• Experience with system or digital design tools, Matlab, SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL.
• Experience developing circuits for consumer, industrial, or automotive markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with a hybrid work arrangement.
• Technical leadership, innovation, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration are part of the role.
• Work involves leading-edge low-power sensing platforms for portable, consumer, industrial, and automotive products.