Dojo Five-posted about 1 month ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Saint Paul, MN
11-50 employees

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! 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
  • Years of relevant professional experience in embedded systems development
  • Required: 10
  • Years of leading other developers
  • Required: 2
  • Programming Languages
  • Required
  • C and C++
  • Python
  • Operating Systems
  • Required
  • Bare-metal
  • FreeRTOS
  • Protocols/Drivers
  • Required
  • UART/USART
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • BLE
  • Processors
  • Required
  • Various ARM cores
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Desired: 15 Years of relevant professional experience in embedded systems development
  • Desired: 5 Years of leading other developers
  • Desired
  • Rust
  • Assembly (ARM, x86, PIC)
  • Desired
  • Zephyr
  • Embedded Linux (user-space applications and Yocto board-bringup)
  • VxWorks
  • ThreadX
  • Secure bootloaders
  • Desired
  • CAN/CAN-FD
  • USB
  • Ethernet
  • WiFi
  • Cellular/LTE
  • protobuf
  • MQTT
  • Flash
  • Desired
  • Single, multi-core and heterogeneous SOCs
  • Nordic
  • NXP
  • SiLabs
  • Desired
  • CI/CD pipeline configuration
  • Serial consoles (e.g. minicom, screen)
  • CMake
  • binutils
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