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Principal Firmware Engineer

Motive Workforce
Westlake Village, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/16/2026

Job Summary

Our client seeking an experienced Firmware Engineer to join our team of engineers, to develop and drive innovative products in the consumer and healthcare marketspace. Lead team members to forge and maintain a close working relationship with external contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Participate in the firmware team contributions to the product concepting process with cross-disciplined engineering teams by way of focus on Industrial Design, User Experience and Sustainability. This role will be full time based out of Westlake Village, CA.


Responsibilities

  • Provides technical leadership and owns firmware in products within the Company’s portfolio, able to drive product development activities independently and with minimal supervision
  • Responsible for the overall firmware architecture of product development
  • Write and contribute high-quality code, including new features and bug fixes, to our repository
  • Write test applications, programs, formal requirements, and relevant documentation
  • Analyze systems and provide software support
  • Estimate time required for coding tasks based on requirements and ensure timely follow-through on assignments
  • Collaborate with the testing team to promptly identify and repair any bugs
  • Maintain the strict and confidentiality of sensitive information
  • Perform other job-related duties as required


Requirements and skills

  • Firmware Engineer background with 4-year college degree
  • 7 years Firmware Engineering design experience
  • Strong embedded C programming skills, ARM Processors desired
  • Experience setting up and utilizing operating system such as FreeRTOS and Zephyr
  • Experience with common software development tools like WSL, IDEs (VS Code), West, CMake, GNU, GIT, Jira, etc.
  • Experience working electronic hardware, microcontrollers, serial communications (USART/I2C/SPI), embedded design, low level debugging using JTAG and similar tools
  • Can read and understand schematics
  • Experienced in hardware bring-up
  • Experienced with device productization and launch
  • Experience coding applications using radio communications including cellular
  • General understanding of power management / optimization
  • Understanding IoT architecture a plus
  • Working knowledge of product development processes, gates and execution
  • Expert comprehension of Microsoft tools (Teams, Excel, Visio, Project and Word)
  • Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time

Salary : $165,000 - $190,000

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