Lead Firmware Engineer, Manufacturing
About The Position
We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to build and own manufacturing software, as well as build and lead our Manufacturing Firmware & Test Systems team. This new team will own the software infrastructure required to successfully build, validate, certify, update, and sustain products across our global manufacturing network. The team serves as the bridge between Product Firmware, Validation & Tools Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Operations, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. This is a technical leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex system-level problems and working directly with manufacturing partners. You will lead a small team of firmware and test station engineers while remaining deeply involved in technical execution. The ideal candidate has a strong embedded firmware background, experience supporting products through manufacturing ramp and sustaining, and a willingness to spend time onsite with suppliers and contract manufacturers as needed. This is a hands-on role where candidates will be expected to write maintainable, well designed firmware and spend most of their time making direct code contributions.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 6+ years of experience developing embedded software or firmware for shipped hardware products.
- Experience supporting products through NPI, manufacturing ramp, and sustaining phases.
- Experience debugging complex hardware/software/system interactions.
- Experience working directly with contract manufacturers, suppliers, or factory teams.
- Phenomenal communication skills enabling clear communication in both highly cross functional internal work as well as maintaining strong and productive relationships with our third party supply chain partners
- Strong understanding of firmware deployment, version control, production releases, and update mechanisms.
- Proven technical leadership experience, including leading projects or small engineering teams.
- Experience with manufacturing test systems, automated test equipment, or production diagnostics.
- Experience developing factory firmware update and provisioning systems.
- Experience supporting product certification and regulatory testing.
- Experience working with global supply chains and multiple contract manufacturers.
Nice To Haves
- Travel as required during NPI and production ramp (typically 25-40%), primarily within Asia.
- Willingness to travel internationally as needed (20-40%) to support manufacturing partners, supplier qualification, production builds, and field issue investigations.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain manufacturing firmware release, deployment, and update strategies across multiple manufacturing partners.
- Design robust firmware update and recovery processes for production environments.
- Lead development and support of manufacturing test software and test stations.
- Drive improvements in manufacturing test coverage, throughput, reliability, and diagnostics.
- Use superior collaboration skills to collaborate across firmware, hardware, and validation engineering teams to ensure manufacturing requirements are incorporated in product firmware and EOL tests are implemented with full coverage.
- Act as the primary software engineering interface to contract manufacturers, suppliers, compliance, and manufacturing operations teams.
- Lead investigations into factory escapes, yield issues, production failures, and field-return trends, and manufacturing related firmware issues.
- Develop scalable processes that reduce recurring factory support burden on product engineering teams.
- Lead a small team of software engineers who bring a broad set of skills to work across multiple microcontrollers, products, and test station
- Establish operating processes, ownership boundaries, and technical standards.
Benefits
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by Also. with FSA & HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
