Senior Firmware Engineer

As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will design and build the core systems that power AIM’s autonomous machines and global fleet operations.

Design and implement firmware for AIM’s Generation 2 hardware platform using C++.

Develop low-level drivers, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), and system services.

Build robust interfaces to sensors, actuators, ECUs, and communication buses (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet).

Ensure deterministic behavior across real-time and near-real-time control paths.

Write clean, efficient, testable embedded C++ code.

Implement robust error handling, watchdogs, and fail-safe mechanisms.

Build firmware that is resilient to hardware faults, communication loss, and environmental variability.

Contribute to firmware standards, architecture, and coding practices.

Design and implement telemetry, logging, and debugging capabilities for embedded systems.

Diagnose complex system issues across firmware, hardware, and system integration boundaries.

Drive root-cause analysis and eliminate recurring failures in field deployments.

Lead firmware bring-up for new hardware (Gen2 boards, daughterboards, interposers).

Work closely with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to validate designs and interfaces.

Support validation efforts including HIL testing, regression testing, and field validation.

Optimize timing, memory usage, and CPU utilization across embedded systems.

Ensure real-time constraints are met for control and safety-critical paths.

Balance system performance with robustness and maintainability.

Mentor engineers on embedded systems, firmware design, and debugging techniques.

Improve firmware development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks.

Establish best practices for firmware reliability, safety, and maintainability.

You design firmware that is simple, deterministic, and highly reliable.

You think in terms of systems - not just code - and understand machine behavior end-to-end.

You bring a strong safety mindset and anticipate failure modes before they occur.

You debug issues others can’t - across firmware, hardware, and system interactions.

You raise engineering rigor through clarity, ownership, and high standards.

You connect firmware decisions directly to machine performance and customer outcomes.