Top Firmware Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Develop ROM code and runtime firmware for digital beamforming ASICs in the TeraWave satellite communications system. Responsibilities include beam pointing, calibration, FEIC and SerDes management, secure boot, telemetry, and sideband control. The engineer will define hardware interfaces, support pre-silicon integration and validation, and conduct post-silicon ASIC bring-up and debugging. The role also involves embedded firmware and hardware interaction validation, with opportunities to lead and mentor engineers.

As a founding firmware engineer at Omi, you will develop firmware for devices, integrate with other technologies, and shape the product's technical direction and culture.

The firmware engineer will write safety-critical code for embedded systems, contribute to hardware design, debug devices, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Design and debug software for embedded devices, working closely with hardware teams to optimize performance and deliver reliable systems.

Develop and implement core firmware features for Mellanox NICs supporting cloud, HPC, and storage networking. Collaborate with architecture and software teams, create verification tests, debug complex hardware/software systems, and contribute to firmware maintenance, qualification, and releases. The role requires strong C/C++ development, networking knowledge, PCIe and virtualization experience, scripting skills, and familiarity with distributed, high-performance computing environments.

As Staff Firmware Engineer, you'll lead the firmware architecture strategy, develop embedded software for medical devices, and ensure compliance with medical regulations. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and optimize processes.

Develop and maintain firmware and embedded system architecture for ARM-based MCUs, focusing on low-power, radio stacks (BT/BLE/Wi‑Fi), sensors, and audio pipelines. Perform hardware bring-up and lab debugging, collaborate with cross-functional teams (EE, RF, Security, Cloud, AI), manage performance metrics (memory, power, latency), and coordinate vendors and manufacturing for production builds.

Design and implement firmware and drivers for AI hardware components, develop functional models, and debug issues in embedded systems.

As an Embedded Firmware Engineer, you'll design and build critical flight software for drones, ensuring reliability and performance while collaborating with various engineering disciplines.

As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you'll develop and implement firmware for Pod products, collaborate with hardware teams, and innovate testing and deployment processes. You will also work closely with manufacturing in China and bring cutting-edge sensor technologies into production.

Own end-to-end firmware QA for embedded satellite hardware: design and build HIL test rigs, automate regression suites with Python, correlate logs across debug probes and device interfaces, define release validation gates, and scale QA processes for hardware products.

Design, implement, and validate embedded firmware for resource-constrained devices (ARM Cortex-M) using C/C++/Rust and Zephyr. Develop device drivers, communication stacks (satellite, LTE, Bluetooth, mesh), optimize power and real-time performance, support board bring-up and hardware debugging, and build CI/CD and HIL test infrastructure.

Design, implement, and own a reusable on-device ML inference platform for resource-constrained devices. Integrate inference into RTOS firmware, develop drivers and DMA paths, debug on real hardware, train and optimize models for microcontroller-class hardware, and ship features to production while raising team expertise and using AI-assisted tooling.

Design and implement high-performance motor controllers and estimators in C++ for bare-metal ARM microcontrollers, write peripheral drivers, validate firmware on bench and flight tests, develop simulations and HIL tests in Rust/Python/Matlab/Julia, and collaborate across hardware, flight software, and operations to improve reliability and fleet monitoring.

Develop, optimize, and maintain embedded systems for humanoid robots, focusing on seamless hardware and software integration and AI-driven control strategies.

Design, implement, and maintain FreeRTOS-based embedded firmware in C/C++ with automated unit and integration tests; build Bristlemouth integrations; create host-side test and automation tools in Python; collaborate with electrical/mechanical engineers on system integration, testing and deployments; drive releases, documentation, and technical leadership for firmware teams.

Develop and integrate firmware, software, and electrical systems for a metal 3D printer. Lead implementation and verification of firmware/PLC-controlled features, motion control, sensor and actuator integration, rapid prototyping, and production code contributions (C/C++, Python). Manage PCB design and serial/analog interfaces, support agency certification, and collaborate across mechanical, electrical, materials, and software teams to deliver product to market.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Serve as technical lead between NVIDIA and hyperscale CSPs on GPU firmware and system software. Drive firmware update orchestration, recovery procedures, multi-GPU coordination, telemetry/health monitoring, and incorporate CSP feedback into NVIDIAs roadmap to improve fleet-scale manageability and reliability.

Lead architecture, development, and productionization of embedded firmware for battery-powered wearable neurotech/audio devices. Own realtime data acquisition, connectivity, power management, bootloaders, OTA, debugging, validation, manufacturing test systems, and reliability practices while collaborating cross-functionally to optimize performance and power.