About the role
Develop real-time firmware for robotic actuators, sensors, communications, and power systems. Own firmware from custom board bring-up through validation, production ramp, and sustained manufacturing. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Strong embedded programming skills in C, C++, or Rust
- Experience developing firmware for microcontrollers in bare-metal or RTOS environments
- Strong understanding of interrupts, timing, concurrency, memory constraints, and real-time behavior
- Experience bringing up custom hardware and debugging across firmware, electronics, and physical systems
- Ability to read schematics, PCB layouts, and component datasheets
- Familiarity with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and data-logging tools
More about this role
We're building a helpful robot for every home.
We're a small team of engineers, designers, and operators based in San Francisco. Our team comes from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, Pixar, and many other great companies. In the past we've shipped to hundreds of millions of users and know what it takes to build amazing products and experiences.
Our team is deliberately lean to promote rapid decision making and do away with bureaucracy and hierarchy. Everyone is an IC and is empowered with massive scope, radical ownership, and direct responsibility. We work across the stack with a culture built for rapid iteration and fast execution.
All roles at The Bot Company demand extreme sharpness and the ability to move fast in high-intensity environments. Throughout the process, we expect candidates to demonstrate:
Exceptional mental acuity: you think quickly, learn instantly, and reason across unfamiliar domains.
Engineering curiosity: you naturally dig into how systems work, even outside your specialty.
High performance mindset: you move fast, handle ambiguity, and excel when the environment is demanding.
You'll architect and build the embedded systems that power the sensing, actuation,...
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