Senior Embedded Engineer - San Francisco, Bay Area OR Pittsburgh, PA, United States
$160,000 - $210,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on developing firmware and applications for Efficient Computer's Electron E1 processor.
About the role
This role involves designing and implementing firmware, applications, and hardware for processors, with a primary responsibility for developing firmware and applications. You will work with the Electron E1 processor.
What you'll do
- Develop and deploy firmware and applications for our processors, in software simulation, RTL emulation, and on silicon.
- Enhance and maintain our low level SDK and set of standard libraries.
- Perform silicon validation and verification activities.
- Develop bring-up test hardware and customer EVKs.
- Perform board bring-up.
- Engage with Digital Design and Compiler teams to debug silicon issues.
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience developing firmware and applications for embedded systems.
- 8+ years of experience with C and/or C++.
- Experience porting RTOSes to new processor architectures.
- Experience debugging new silicon and hardware prototypes in the lab.
- Deep knowledge of at least one embedded platform, such as MSP430, STM32, Ambiq Apollo, PIC32, or similar.
- Experience using industry standard development and debugging tools for embedded systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with PCB board design.
- Solid grasp of computer architectures.
Skills: firmware, bare-metal SDK, RTOSes, board bring-up, silicon validation
This role has been open 46 days — below the 54-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
730
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$169k
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| Metric | Efficient Computer | All employers we track in this specialty (730 roles · 83 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 730 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 4 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 54 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: firmware, bare-metal SDK, RTOSes, board bring-up, silicon validation
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 119 open roles · median 52 d
- AMD · 65 open roles · median 36 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 86 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 60 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 46 open roles · median 39 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 32 open roles · median 33 d
How we counted: 730 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 83 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.