Senior Firmware Engineer, Controls Systems

Standard Bots • Glen Cove, NY

10h • Hybrid

About The Position

Standard Bot’s mission is to significantly lower the barrier to entry to real-world automation, bringing the power of bits to the world of atoms and unlocking productivity for entire new industries and users.
Our robotics, vision, and networking platform is the basis for our company’s ambitious goals- and a platform of such magnitude requires a deep investment in extensibility, simplicity, and reliability.
Embedded + Control Systems engineering is the basis of the entire company’s mission. The foundations they build to empower not only the company, but entire industries.
We’re looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders with a strong electrical engineering mindset to help architect the future of robotics through best in class, modern software engineering practices. In this role, you will operate at the boundary between hardware and software, working closely with electrical, controls, and higher-level software teams to ensure reliable, observable, and debuggable systems.

Requirements

• Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5+ years working in complex environments
• Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
• Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
• Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
• Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
• Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware for real-time motor control, sensing, and system monitoring
• Debug complex system-level issues where root cause may span software, firmware, hardware, or component behavior
• Use hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs to diagnose timing, signaling, and electrical issues
• Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software, collaborating closely with EEs, controls, motion planning, and systems engineers
• Advise leadership on technical decisions and strategy
• Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement
• Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work

Benefits

• All Full-Time Employees are eligible for Employee Stock Options.
• We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed