Senior Firmware Engineer

Senior Firmware Engineer - San Francisco, CA 

A company building AI systems that can interact with the physical world at scale - designing experiments, controlling hardware, and accelerating scientific discovery from days to reality are looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer to join their team. 

What Will I Be Doing

• Design auto-generation flows transforming specs into deterministic firmware/RTL, including register maps, FSMs, and memory-mapped interfaces
• Own digital design correctness: clock/reset domains, CDC, timing constraints, and synthesis-aware RTL for FPGA/ASIC workflows
• Build integration layers for standard protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet) and internal buses (AXI, APB, Wishbone)
• Develop verification infrastructure: self-checking testbenches, SVA, linting, coverage-driven regression, and formal methods
• Create tool-driven feedback loops running synthesis/simulation/formal verification with automatic fix proposals
• Ship CI/CD systems with golden tests, build determinism, and strict change controls
• Implement safety guardrails: invariants, privilege boundaries, audit logging, and policies preventing unsafe outputs
• Collaborate with platform, ML/agent, and domain teams to integrate into live hardware workflows

What We're Looking For

• Strong digital design: FSM design, register maps, timing/constraints, CDC, hardware debug
• Hardware protocol integration and memory-mapped control patterns
• Verification skills: testbenches, SVA/assertions, UVM concepts, simulation tools (Verilator, commercial)
• FPGA/ASIC flow knowledge and ability to deliver synthesizable, timing-clean RTL
• Experience building reproducible automation pipelines: deterministic codegen, error parsing, CI/CD
• AI-powered code generation pipeline experience: spec → structured IR, templating, tool-calling loops, safety mechanisms
• Strong software engineering: clean architecture, testing, versioning, reliability mindset

What's In It For Me:

• Salary of $200,000 - $300,000 dependent on experience 
• Greenfield work. Build something that doesn't exist, at the frontier of physical AI and automated hardware design
• Real impact. Control actual physical systems contributing to breakthroughs in cancer detection, materials science, and more
• Join a company backed by significant venture funding and a $42M government research programme

Apply now for immediate consideration!