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Senior Firmware Engineer II

VergeSense

VergeSense

Mountain View, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
Our Company
The workplace has undergone a complete transformation. Historically, occupancy was consistent; everyone worked in-office five days per week. But post-pandemic, occupancy is inconsistent, unpredictable, and dynamic, as work has become more flexible than ever before. To make decisions with confidence, workplace, CRE, and facilities management leaders need a true understanding of how and when their spaces are used.
VergeSense is the company behind the world’s first and only Occupancy Intelligence Platform. Over 200 companies across 45 countries and 100M sqft rely on occupancy intelligence to make confident, fact-based optimization decisions to improve employee experience and decrease costs. VergeSense customers use our platform, which is built on a foundation of the industry's most accurate occupancy sensors, to right-size their portfolio, validate space planning and designs, optimize cleaning operations, and ensure their teams can always find spaces to work.
Our Philosophy
We like to move and iterate fast and believe in the outsized impact that a single team member can have on a company. A core philosophy of ours is simplicity — from product design, to engineering architecture, to our day-to-day working styles. Our team is experienced (previous successful exit in the IoT space), with a commitment to building an industry-leading product and an open, communicative, and diverse team culture.
We are looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to be a strong leader on our engineering team. This role is based out of our Mountain View, California HQ.
What You'll Do
Own firmware shipping to hundreds of global Fortune 500 customers
Work on exciting low-power inference on the edge technologies that bring proprietary computer vision algorithms to low-powered, wireless, embedded systems
Engage constructively with the team to define requirements, develop software architecture, and plan development in dynamic, evolving problem spaces.
Be a creative element that delivers innovative solutions from concept to prototype to production.
Conduct software unit tests to exercise your implemented functionality.
Document your software designs.
Contribute to factory test procedures to ensure shipment of quality products.
Troubleshoot and remove defects from production software.
Communicate and interact with the team to set expectations, share technical details, resolve issues, and report progress.
Participate in brainstorms and otherwise contribute outside your area of expertise.
What We're Looking For
5+ years of firmware development experience.
Experience researching, designing, and developing contemporary processors, networking, user interface, sensor, safety, and charging electronics.
Experience in developing code for low-power wireless devices e.g. WiFi, BLE.
Experience in developing devices for large volume production.A track record of delivering designs optimized for multiple dimensions including cost and reliability.
Experience developing from the lowest levels of circuit design to full-scale system design and see those systems all the way through to volume manufacturing and field deployment.
Design for security experience.
Experience working on platform software, including board bring-up, diagnostics, and communication interfaces including UART, I2C, SPI.
Experience designing a variety of peripheral devices and sensors.
Experience working on embedded Linux platforms is a MUST.
Experience in C coding in bare metal and RTOS is a plus.
Ability and willingness to make critical system-level design decisions and drive projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
Benefits
• A high-impact role in an emerging industry leader
• Competitive compensation and equity
• Employer-sponsored medical
• Dental and vision insurance (dependent on location)
• Open Vacation policy: take time off when you need it
We value people from all walks of life who exhibit kindness, curiosity, discipline, humility, and passion to excel at what they do. If you would like to contribute to our team, we encourage you to apply.