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$162,400–$290,000/yr
US Canada

  • Develop firmware for millions of IoT devices, including battery-powered sensors, Linux gateways, and dashcams.
  • Own peripheral drivers, secure bootloaders, and device firmware updates for field-deployed hardware.
  • Collaborate with electrical engineers on hardware bring-up and optimize power consumption for extended device life.

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$162,400–$290,000/yr
Canada

  • Lead firmware development for resource-constrained IoT devices from prototype to production.
  • Partner with electrical engineers to evaluate hardware and bring up new platforms.
  • Design power-efficient architectures and reliable systems for sensor data collection.

The company develops connected IoT devices for physical operations. They are a high-growth organization with a collaborative engineering culture that values diverse perspectives and technical growth.

$154,700–$208,000/yr
US

  • Architect, develop, debug, and test customer facing firmware features written in C/C++ and Golang for Samsara’s cloud-connected hardware platform.
  • Build IOT products for the long term and support our 1.5+ million devices in the field.
  • Design and develop our internal observability discipline to ensure the health of our firmware rollouts.

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, enabling organizations to harness IoT data to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability. With over 2.3 million IoT devices deployed, it is a recently public company that values autonomy and support for long-term impact.

US

  • Design, develop, and optimize firmware for embedded systems, ensuring reliability and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with hardware teams to implement firmware solutions for wireless embedded designs and communication interfaces like Bluetooth, LoRa, or LTE.
  • Conduct debugging, testing, and firmware updates in rugged, mission-critical environments to meet defense-grade standards.

LMI is a digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. The company serves defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors, with a focus on agility and collaboration.

US Unlimited PTO

  • Own end-to-end architecture of hardware safety and power management systems, designing safe-state strategies and power sequencing across multiple cores and PMICs.
  • Implement low-level drivers and firmware for safety-critical integrated circuits directly from datasheets, ensuring bug-free and testable code on bare metal and FreeRTOS.
  • Lead development of hardware-software safety diagnostic frameworks, integrating TI Safety Diagnostic Library to map diagnostic coverage to ISO 26262 hardware fault metrics.

Latitude AI develops L3 automated driving technology for Ford vehicles. It is a Ford subsidiary with engineering centers in Pittsburgh, Dearborn, and Palo Alto.

US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Develop cloud architecture and IoT fleet management solutions for thousands of devices.
  • Improve device firmware and ensure uptime and quality across the fleet.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with customers, field support, and manufacturing teams.

Voltus is a platform that connects distributed energy resources to energy markets across the US and Canada, enabling grid flexibility and revenue for partners. It is a remote-first company with a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, and a passion for clean energy.

$90,000–$130,000/yr
US

  • Develop and maintain embedded firmware supporting secure communications and cryptographic functionality.
  • Integrate and optimize use of the nRF54L Series AES-256 hardware accelerator within embedded firmware.
  • Design, implement, and validate secure key management capabilities for embedded devices.

LMI is a digital solutions provider accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the company serves defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors with a focus on agility and collaboration.

$143,000–$261,500/yr
US Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Build and own the reusable on-device ML inference platform for Life360's portfolio of trackers and wearables, integrating edge ML into resource-constrained RTOS firmware.
  • Perform core firmware engineering including low-level driver development, power management, and debugging on real hardware, while carrying regular firmware work when ML demand is light.
  • Develop and ship ML models on device, handling quantization, optimization, and the full pipeline from sensor data to inference result, and set technical direction for on-device intelligence.

Life360's mission is to keep people close to the ones they love, offering a mobile app, Tile tracking devices, and Pet GPS tracker for location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection. The company serves approximately 97.8 million monthly active users across over 180 countries and has more than 500 remote-first employees, fostering a collaborative and mission-driven culture.