Senior Firmware Engineer, Standard Bots
Controls Systems
$180-230k
+ Employee Stock Options
More information about location
AI-powered robots
Open for applications
AI-powered robots
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+ Employee Stock Options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To propel human productivity through the world’s most accessible robots.
Role
Who you are
- We do not require or favor any background in robotics
- We’re looking for engineers who are self-driven, optimistic, creative, and resourceful
- We have no requirements for a background in robotics, but find most success with engineers excited by the domain and looking to apply their expertise and experience in a new, fascinating area
- Experience: You have a strong technical background, including 5+ years working in complex environments
- Growth + Optimism: You are excited by new domains and challenges, and eager to pick up new context to accelerate your impact
- Clarity of Communication: You excel in written and verbal communication and enjoy leveraging your skills to support your peers
- Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
- Proactive Simplicity: You prioritize simplicity, reliability, and velocity and proactively identify opportunities to improve proposed implementations or incumbent systems
- Excelling in Ambitious Environments: You excel in dynamic and ambitious environments, working with a diverse group of individuals and backgrounds
What the job involves
- We’re looking for seasoned and skilled technical leaders with a strong electrical engineering mindset to help architect the future of robotics through best in class, modern software engineering practices
- In this role, you will operate at the boundary between hardware and software, working closely with electrical, controls, and higher-level software teams to ensure reliable, observable, and debuggable systems
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware for real-time motor control, sensing, and system monitoring
- Debug complex system-level issues where root cause may span software, firmware, hardware, or component behavior
- Use hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and DMMs to diagnose timing, signaling, and electrical issues
- Act as a technical bridge between hardware and software, collaborating closely with EEs, controls, motion planning, and systems engineers
- Advise leadership on technical decisions and strategy
- Mentor and advise other engineers as well as peers on technical and personal advancement
- Drive technical decision making and implementation through hands-on and technically deep work
- The Systems Group focuses on foundational technologies including motor and actuator control, embedded communications, system health monitoring/logging, and hardware bring-up
- Tech Stack:
- MCUs: STM32
- Languages: C / C++
- RTOS: FreeRTOS or similar
- Supporting Systems: Linux host OS, NodeJS / TypeScript, Docker
- Tooling: GitHub Actions, CI/CD
Our take
In recent years, the field of robotics has brought to life ideas that once belonged to the world of sci-fi. But, robots are still extremely complex to program, making the automations they facilitate out of reach for many businesses.
Standard Bots is setting out to change this, with AI-powered robots and a complementary robotics platform that means they can be programmed through simple demonstrations. This approach should broaden the accessibility of robots to businesses of all sizes, enabling them to employ automations that can give them a competitive edge.
It's an intriguing proposition, and investors agree, with the company raising substantial funding to support its mission. Standard Bots plans to use these funds to expand its engineering team and speed up the development of its robots. The company will, however, likely need to contend with competition from inexpensive robots from China as it develops into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$63m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$24m
SERIES A
Total funding: $87m
Company benefits
- Employee stock options
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- Life insurance & disability insurance
- 401(k)
Company HQ
Glen Cove, NY
Leadership
Evan Beard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Co-Founder and CEO at A Plus. Also co-founded Gridtech and Etacts, and was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in Software Engineering at Salesforce.
David Golden
(Co-Founder)Co-founder and Chairman at Miralinc Pharma, and Co-founder at Bowery Farming. Previously co-founded and was CEO at LeapPay, and has also worked in Investment at several businesses.
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