Staff Firmware Engineer

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Lead embedded systems development projects while collaborating across disciplines and mentoring engineers to push the boundaries of technology.

We’re always excited to connect with talented Staff Firmware Engineers who love solving complex problems and building systems that make hardware come alive. At Dojo Five, we work on a variety of cutting-edge projects—and since our workload ebbs and flows, this is an evergreen posting. We’re constantly seeking engineers who thrive on solving complex technical challenges, enjoy collaborating across disciplines, and take pride in creating quality, reliable, high-performance solutions. If you’re excited by the opportunity to make a lasting impact and push the boundaries of embedded technology using modern best practices, we’d love to connect with you!

What does an evergreen posting mean?

That means we may not have an immediate opening today, but we’re looking ahead and building relationships with great engineers for upcoming projects. If your background looks like a good fit, our team will reach out to start the interview process. We encourage you to apply and stay connected—because when the right project kicks off, we move fast!

We are open to hiring for W-2 contract to hire roles or 1099 independent contractors!

Responsibilities

A Staff Firmware Engineer is an experienced professional with strong professional experience in embedded systems development. They play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining firmware solutions. Additionally, they possess the skills, knowledge, and ability to directly interact with customers, lead projects, and be responsible for their team and project performance.

  • Set strategic direction for major advancements in modern best-practices for our clients and for DojoFive
  • Develop, program, review, and test firmware, products, and electronics
  • Design build systems, code repositories, and documentation policies
  • Provide guidance for how to establish project expectations and successfully follow through
  • Provide technical guidance, career development coaching and mentorship, including but not limited to leading technical training
  • Demonstrate and hold others accountable to the Dojo Five Values and Dojo Five Way
  • Regularly participate in branding outreach and marketing activities.
  • Lead projects, including work breakdown, architectural discussion, and guidance
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project goals and requirements
  • Lead various recruitment activities, group interviews and technical reviews
  • Attend Dojo Five leadership training and development activities
  • Participate in sales discussions representing the Dojo Five’s technical capabilities
  • Manage work time independently, but report it accurately

Core Values

  • Always Learning: Provides expert advice and weighs in on complex decisions and problems that impact other teams or the company at large.
  • Humble Confidence: Able to scope and define all sizes of work or projects into well-defined milestones and timeframes.
  • Always Deliver: Regularly delivers projects or work as and when required; if not possible expectations are always managed and the reasons why clearly articulated.
  • Push Boundaries: Identifies and proactively tackles future issues before they grow into something even bigger.
  • Give a Sh*t: Takes on self-initiated experiments to push boundaries within a project or the company while staying within budget and time constraints. Demonstrated track record of valuable, adopted innovations.
  • Have Fun: Consistently brings ideas to improve the happiness of others and independently champions their implementation.

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Years of relevant professional experience in embedded systems development
    • Required: 10
    • Desired: 15
  • Years of leading other developers
    • Required: 2
    • Desired: 5
  • Programming Languages
    • Required
      • C and C++
      • Python
    • Desired
      • Rust
      • Assembly (ARM, x86, PIC)
  • Operating Systems
    • Required
      • Bare-metal
      • FreeRTOS
    • Desired
      • Zephyr
      • Embedded Linux (user-space applications and Yocto board-bringup)
      • VxWorks
      • ThreadX
      • Secure bootloaders
  • Protocols/Drivers
    • Required
      • UART/USART
      • I2C
      • SPI
      • BLE
    • Desired
      • CAN/CAN-FD
      • USB
      • Ethernet
      • WiFi
      • Cellular/LTE
      • protobuf
      • MQTT
      • Flash
  • Processors
    • Required
      • Various ARM cores
    • Desired
      • Single, multi-core and heterogeneous SOCs
      • Nordic
      • NXP
      • SiLabs
  • Development Tools
    • Required
      • IDEs (VSCode, Eclipse, STM32CubeIDE)
      • Docker/devcontainers
      • Benchtop tools (scope, logic/protocol analyzers, power supplies, multimeter)
      • git
      • pytest
      • Unit testing infrastructures (e.g. Unity/CMock/Ceedling, Google Test, gMock)
    • Desired
      • CI/CD pipeline configuration
      • Serial consoles (e.g. minicom, screen)
      • CMake
      • binutils

Who Should Apply? Someone who…

  • Has a passion for best practices
  • Has excellent people and communication skills
  • Enjoys working in an environment where they thrive on continuously learning new skills
  • Enjoys working with early stage projects that are driven by non-embedded experts and can make a client’s vision into a reality
  • Approaches challenges with optimism, curiosity and kindness
  • Prioritizes outcome over ego
  • Is a critical thinker and is able to fruitfully extract and discuss reasoning behind conclusions (their own and others’)
  • Is a methodical problem-solver
  • Is authentic and trust-worthy
  • Has experience generating buy-ins from a wide range of stakeholders
  • Has experience to not only identify technical and procedural risks, but multiple potential solutions and the ability to effectively communicate the pros and cons of each option
  • Enjoys leading/influencing and working with people, but is also capable of working independently
  • Relies on logical persuasion and influence instead of authority in order to get things done

About the Company

Dojo Five offers products and consulting services to revolutionize the embedded firmware development industry. With over 335 years of combined expertise, Dojo Five helps companies optimize their embedded software development systems by integrating tools, techniques, and culture to deliver modern firmware for embedded systems.

We are on a mission to drive the firmware industry forward through “modern firmware” — the tools, techniques, culture, and technologies we believe support a joyful experience when envisioning, developing, and using embedded devices. Our vision is 10,000 Successful Modernization Initiatives by 2035!

EEO

Dojo Five provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

“Dojo” translates to “place of the way” and represents an environment for immersive learning.We value life-work balanceYou read that right–“Life” first then “Work”. Dojo Five is a remote-first company where the team works hard, but we know that balancing life with work is important to feeling great about what you do. We know that you’ll perform better when you know that you have the space in your life for quality time for yourself, your family, and to deal with the challenges that life throws at you.We want you to grow with usOur teammates love it here, but we won’t claim nirvana—there’s always work to be done in any company to make it a better place to work, and that’s every bit as true for us. We encourage learning and taking on new challenges and we’ll be there to support you every step of the way.At Dojo Five, our team members stick around. In the last 5 years, our turnover rate has averaged less than 5% per year! In a world where the average employee turnover rate across industries is a staggering 57.3%, that should tell you something.We’re not trying to convince you that your job at Dojo Five will be the last job you ever have, but we make it our job to make sure that Dojo Five will be one of the more memorable stops on your career journey.Our company values drive what we do with the express goal of modernizing embedded system development practices. It’s not just a matter of building a project and getting it running. It’s doing it in a way that sets an example of disciplined engineering for anyone who needs to work with that project in the future—long after they’ve worked with us. Dojo Five seeks individuals with a willingness to lead—to guide our customers and peers in a way that earns their trust. In doing so, it affords us the opportunity to share our vision, values, and best practices with like-minded individuals and ultimately the customers we work for.

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