Lead Embedded Software Engineer

Formlabs•Somerville, MA

6d•$170,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

Firmware turns a Formlabs printer from a box of boards, motors, lasers, and sensors into a machine people trust for a 12-hour print. It runs on more than 130,000 printers in dental labs, hospitals, factories, and engineering teams, from the Form 4 and Form 4L to the Fuse 1+ and Fuse X1. As our Embedded Engineering Manager, you'll lead the embedded software team that writes it, across microcontrollers and embedded Linux. We're adding new printers over the next few years, so the platform you build now decides how fast each new machine comes up and how well it holds up in the field.

Requirements

Experienced embedded software engineer who has shipped production firmware in C and C++ for complex electromechanical products such as robots, consumer electronics, medical devices or industrial equipment.
You've led a team of embedded or firmware engineers, including hiring and managing performance.
You've taken multiple products from prototype to volume production and supported them after launch.
You're comfortable working from bare-metal microcontrollers to embedded Linux and multicore processors, using Python for tooling and testing.
You've brought up boards and peripherals yourself (ADC, PWM, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet), can read a schematic, and debug with a scope and logic analyzer.
You can profile and optimize firmware for performance, memory, and power, and diagnose problems across several connected controllers using logs and trace data.
You make decisions with incomplete information, move quickly, and can explain how a technical call affects the customer.
You communicate clearly with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers, as well as product and program leads.

Nice To Haves

Linux kernel experience, such as writing device drivers
Firmware for motion control, lasers or optics, or thermal systems
Over-the-air (OTA) updates and device security for connected products
Supporting a large fleet of connected devices in the field
MISRA C or other safety-critical coding standards
Passion and experience in 3D printing
Background in electronics or robotics

Responsibilities

Own delivery of embedded firmware for current and upcoming printers: hit program milestones, set the quality bar, and decide with program leads what ships now and what waits.
Stay hands-on. Review architecture and code, debug on target hardware next to your engineers, and write code when the team needs another pair of hands.
Set direction for a shared embedded platform (drivers, communication stacks, RTOS and embedded Linux integration, bootloaders, firmware updates and build infrastructure) so each new printer reuses what works instead of starting over.
Hire strong embedded engineers, coach them toward their best work, and deal with performance problems directly and early.
Partner with electrical engineering, systems integration, mechanical and software teams from board bring-up through production, and trace field failures back to root cause.
Build the test automation, CI, and static analysis that let the team ship firmware updates to a large installed base without breaking it.
Question requirements and cut work that doesn't matter to customers, so the team spends its time on what does.