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Firmware Engineering Lead

AIT Global Inc
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 6/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/6/2026

Job Title: Firmware Engineering Lead
Location: Boston, MA

Our Ideal Candidate Must Have:

  • Technical leadership of several concurrent firmware development projects
  • Hiring and performance management - knowing how to build a great technical team
  • Proficiency with bare metal and RTOS programming in C and C
  • Strong debugging skills including the use of cloud infrastructure and instrumentation to monitor system performance and crash logs remotely
  • Experience building highly efficient firmware for battery sensitive applications/IOT
  • Experience in radio technologies such as WiFi, Cellular, BLE
  • Experience with I2C, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, SPI, MQTT
  • Experience with COTS sensors
  • Experience utilizing CI/CD within firmware projects building and testing with unit tests, integration and system tests
  • Experience developing manufacturing tests
  • Experience validating and integrating third party firmware from vendors and consultants
  • Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience leading technical teams
  • Experience working with Customer Success to troubleshoot and correct customer issues
  • Experience using protocol buffers to serialize and deserialize data used in communication with external systems
  • Experience with reviewing PCB layouts and design best practices
  • Experience working with Asia Design/MFG partners

Other Requirements:

  • BS/MS Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 8 years experience as a Firmware Engineer
  • Several years of experience as a Firmware Technical Lead

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • You will be leading a small team in the development of an aggressive hardware roadmap
  • You will be building firmware for new projects
  • You will be maintaining and improving our firmware over time
  • Drive continuous improvement in firmware quality, reliability, and development processes
  • Support compliance, validation, and release activities in line with company and ISO procedures

Work Location: In person

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