Firmware Engineer, Mill
$185-210k
+ potential equity grant
Office located in San Bruno, CA
Food waste recycling company
Be an early applicant
Food waste recycling company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-210k
+ potential equity grant
Office located in San Bruno, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering (obtained)
- 1-3 years professional experience in embedded software development
- Ability to work 3-5 days a week in office at our San Bruno location
- Experience writing, testing, and debugging embedded C to control electromechanical components and read sensors
- Strong analytical and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with embedded Linux systems: Yocto preferred
- Experience debugging physical hardware using oscilloscopes, network/logic analyzers
- Past experience developing for loadcells, DC motors, PID controllers, DC fans
- Experience with python scripting
- Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop testing platforms
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines for production code
What the job involves
- As a Firmware Engineer at Mill, you’ll be working with a small dynamic team on a novel product. Your day-to-day will include hands-on work with hardware components and lab equipment as well as production code
- Since we’re a small team, your work and learning will span Development, Testing, and Debug as we push towards launch. This role is for someone who wants to learn and be creatively challenged
- Work closely with the Mill cross functional team on the embedded software and hardware validation of new products
- Writing, testing, and reviewing new embedded code to run on our systems and exploring new ways to control our system
- Hands-on support debugging systems during commissioning and supporting testing activities by working with electrical engineers and product designers to troubleshoot and drive system level performance
- Implementing prototype drivers and testing on hardware systems
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
While Mill is currently only available in the US, since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(Founder & President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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