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Senior Firmware Engineer

ExecutivePlacements.com
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/27/2025 CLOSED ON 12/24/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Firmware Engineer position at ExecutivePlacements.com?

At Tive, we imagine a fully-transparent world in which everything and everyone is connected. We innovate beyond what the world thought possibleso what people hold near and dear arrives on time and in full.

We believe (and live!) four core values:

  • Transparency First: We make everything visible so that everyone can operate better
  • Always strive to make things simpler
  • We are One Team, we have each other's backs
  • Relentless iteration to optimize and improve

Whether shipped by road, rail, ocean, or air, Tive reduces shipment delays, minimizes rejected loads, and decreases theft, damage, and spoilage. Our customers count on Tive to ensure that their shipments are delivered on time and in fullbecause every shipment matters.

As a Senior Firmware Engineer at Tive you will be responsible for all aspects of the firmware and embedded software development process, including developing and maintaining new and existing projects, testing and releasing new firmware versions, and investigating and debugging reported bugs or issues.

Our Ideal Candidate Has

  • 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 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

What You'll Be Doing

  • You will be building firmware for new projects
  • You will be maintaining and improving our firmware over time

What does Tive offer?

  • A chance to join what may very well turn out to be the most important company in your career.
  • The autonomy and resources to build what you know how to build.
  • Work with a committed global team that have each others back.
  • Office-based or hybrid options. Your choice.
  • Competitive equity to ensure all of our employees have a sense of ownership in the long-term success of Tive's growth.

We celebrate diversity, and consider it key to our success as both a team and a company. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect for all employees.

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