As a Firmware Engineer, you will develop and optimize firmware for low power wireless devices, troubleshoot software, and contribute to design documentation and testing procedures.
Our Company
The workplace has undergone a complete transformation. Historically, occupancy was consistent; everyone worked in the office five days per week. But in today’s world, occupancy is inconsistent, unpredictable, and dynamic, as work has become more flexible than ever before. To make decisions with confidence, workplace, CRE, and facilities management leaders need a true understanding of how and when their spaces are used.
VergeSense is the company behind the world’s first and only Occupancy Intelligence Platform. Over 220 companies across 50 countries and 140M sqft rely on occupancy intelligence to make confident, fact-based optimization decisions to improve employee experience and decrease costs. VergeSense customers use our Occupancy Intelligence Platform, which is built on a foundation of the industry's most accurate occupancy sensors and other data sources, to right-size their portfolio, validate space planning and designs, optimize cleaning operations, and ensure their teams can always find spaces to work.
Our Philosophy
We like to move and iterate fast and believe in the outsized impact that a single team member can have on a company. A core philosophy of ours is simplicity — from product design, to engineering architecture, to our day-to-day working styles. Our team is experienced (previous successful exit in the IoT space), with a commitment to building an industry-leading product and open, communicative, and diverse team culture.
We are looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to be a strong leader on our engineering team. This role is based out of our Mountain View, California HQ.
At this time we are only able to consider US Citizens and Green Card Holders in the Bay Area
What You'll Do
- Own firmware shipping to hundreds of global fortune 500 customers
- Work on exciting low power inference on the edge technologies that bring proprietary computer vision algorithms to low powered, wireless, embedded systems
- Engage constructively with team to define requirements, develop software architecture, and plan development in dynamic, evolving problem spaces.
- Be a creative element that delivers innovative solutions from concept to prototype to production.
- Conduct software unit tests to exercise your implemented functionality.
- Document your software designs.
- Contribute to factory test procedures to ensure shipment of quality product.
- Troubleshoot and remove defects from production software.
- Communicate and interact with team to clearly set expectations, share technical details, resolve issues, and report progress.
- Participate in brainstorms and otherwise contribute outside your area of expertise.
What We're Looking For
- Eagerness to learn firmware development
- Experience researching, designing and developing contemporary processor, networking, user interface, sensor, safety, and charging electronics.
- Experience in developing code for low power wireless devices e.g. WiFi, BLE.
- Experience in developing devices for large volume production.
- A track record of delivering designs optimized for multiple dimensions including cost and reliability.
- Experience developing from the lowest levels of circuit design to full-scale system design and see those systems all the way through to volume manufacturing and field deployment.
- Design for security experience.
- Experience working on platform software including bare metal, RTOS, board bring-up, diagnostics, and communication interfaces including UART, I2C, SPI.
- Experience designing a variety of peripheral devices and sensors.
- Experience C coding in an embedded Linux environment is a plus.
- Ability and willingness to make critical system-level design decisions and drive projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
Benefits
• A high-impact role in an emerging industry leader
• Competitive compensation and equity
• Employer-sponsored medical
• Dental and vision insurance (dependent on location)
• Open Vacation policy: take time off when you need it
We value people from all walks of life who exhibit kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion to excel at what they do. If you would like to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply.
Top Skills
Ble
C
Embedded Systems
Firmware
I2C
Linux
Rtos
Spi
Uart
Wifi
VergeSense Mountain View, California, USA Office
148 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA, United States, 94041
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