Firmware Engineer
About The Position
Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead. Skip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely 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 in the coming years.
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, even in the middle of overly-long lists
- Experience with troubleshooting tools (JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- Ability to work at the Skip Bay Area office 3 days/week
- Sense of humour, tolerant of Aussie & Canadian spelling
Nice To Haves
- Experience with robotics or powered consumer electronics (e.g. drones, robot vacuums)
- Experience controlling PMSM, including Ti and STM chipsets
- Experience with TFLite Micro/X-Cube-AI
- Experience in start-up environments and using AI coding tools to leverage your skills for broader impact
- Personal motivation to improve human movement
Responsibilities
- Owning our embedded C/C++, including FreeRTOS managing, interrupts, JTAG/SWD debugging etc
- Improve and iterate on our handling of data communication between peripherals and chips such as the ESP32, STM32 etc. Including Wi-FI and BLE
- Implement appropriate secure OTAs and bootloaders
- Help manage our AWS IoT Core: mTLS, MQTT, Things/certs/policies, fleet provisioning, IoT Jobs OTA
- Help us 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 our motor control chip (currently c2000; but likely to change over time)
- 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 our end-to-end real-time embedded firmware / linux systems, from vision and roadmap through design and into practice, including for adjacent products such as our 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 embarrassing team events, tolerate KZ’s terrible music
Benefits
- equal opportunity employer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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