Firmware Engineer, Robotics

OpenAI · Research

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Metro: San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: On-site
Level: Unspecified
Type: Full-time
Pay: $380K–$445K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 5 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the Team

We are building general-purpose robotics. In the short term, we are focused on robots to support skilled workers to build our future infrastructure. In the long term, we imagine everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need. Progress is rapid, and…

About the Role

As a Firmware Engineer, you will define and drive the architecture of embedded systems for next-generation hardware products. You will own foundational firmware decisions across real-time execution, device bring-up, hardware interfaces, fault handling, safety…

In this role, you will

Rapidly bring up new hardware and set execution pace for the team. Lead firmware architecture for embedded systems spanning boot, RTOS/runtime behavior, peripheral control, power management, communications, and field diagnostics. Define engineering standards…

You might thrive in this role if you

Have extensive experience developing firmware in an iterative environment. Get a thrill from bringing up new hardware and taking end-to-end ownership over ensuring it works. Have led architecture and delivery for complex embedded products that shipped to real…

Nice to have

Experience with Rust in embedded environments. Experience with Embassy or other async embedded Rust frameworks. Familiarity with mixed-language firmware architectures, including introducing Rust incrementally into existing C/C++ systems. Experience with ARM…

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our…

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