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Firmware Engineer

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About the role

About This Role

This senior firmware engineering role is at a startup building wearable robotic devices to restore mobility and enable joyful movement experiences. The engineer will contribute directly to product development as an individual contributor, with leadership for critical systems, working on a new generation of wearable robots for everyday life.

Responsibilities

  • Own embedded C/C++, including FreeRTOS managing, interrupts, JTAG/SWD debugging
  • Improve and iterate on handling data communication between peripherals and chips such as the ESP32, STM32, including Wi-FI and BLE
  • Implement appropriate secure OTAs and bootloaders
  • Help manage AWS IoT Core: mTLS, MQTT, Things/certs/policies, fleet provisioning, IoT Jobs OTA
  • Help precisely control a range of actuators including off-the-shelf BLDCs, custom PMSM and axial flux motors, cycloid gearboxes, and series elastic actuators, including writing firmware for the motor control chip (currently c2000)
  • Guide design and development decisions for future iterations of the product and future systems, including novel actuator design, chip selection, and firmware requirements
  • Help develop other aspects of end-to-end real-time embedded firmware / Linux systems, from vision and roadmap through design and into practice, including for adjacent products such as the Parkinson's product, future clinical and research devices which require more edge-compute
  • Wear prototypes several hours a week to participate in data collection, on-body testing, and provide feedback
  • Bring joy to the team, participate in team events, tolerate KZ's music

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience working in firmware development
  • Demonstrable expertise in embedded C/C++ for high-performance applications, ideally including FreeRTOS
  • Experience programming the ESP32 and STM32, or similar chipsets
  • Experience with AWS IoT Core systems and fleet management, including OTA updates
  • Experience with design for systems at scale, with a focus on testing and validation
  • Expertise with Linux, command-line tools, Python scripting
  • Strong experience developing real-time firmware for multi-sensor systems
  • Knowledge of low-level hardware and OS internals at a kernel level
  • Attention to detail
  • Experience with troubleshooting tools (JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
  • Ability to work at the Skip Bay Area office 3 days/week
  • Sense of humor, tolerant of Aussie & Canadian spelling

Nice to have:

  • Experience with robotics or powered consumer electronics (e.g. drones, robot vacuums)
  • Experience controlling PMSM, including Ti and STM chipsets

Job details

Workplace

Remote

Employment

Full time

Seniority

Mid level

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Posted

Posted today

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  • Personal motivation to improve human movement
  • Taylor Swift fan. Good taste in background music
  • Important Details

    • Work format: hybrid, 3 days/week at the Skip office in Dogpatch, San Francisco

    About the Company

    Skip is a 20-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. It is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement by building products that restore mobility and enable new joyful movement experiences. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx), Skip is positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products, and transform millions of lives.

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