Senior Firmware Engineer

At Avegant, we are a unique team. Heads-down when we need to be, we enjoy each other’s company and play together as well as work together. Each member of our team contributes in their own way to our culture of openness, collaboration, and creativity. 

Avegant is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to contribute to our cutting-edge near eye display technology. The position will be best filled by a highly-motivated person with ~8 years of  experience (or the education and experience outlined below). This position will work alongside senior engineers, contributing to the design, development, and testing of firmware for Avegant’s light engines and the associated Augmented Reality glasses platforms. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a revolutionary technology in a fast-growing field. This position will work closely with our electrical engineering and product teams. This position reports to the Director of Software.

The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $200,000 depending on experience. Other benefits include stock options, full medical, dental, vision benefits, 401k matching, unlimited PTO, office snacks, and daily team lunches.

This role is an in-office role 3+ days per week, located at our office located in San Mateo, CA, within walking distance of Caltrain.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and development of firmware for AR glasses prototypes, reference designs and test fixtures.
• Develop drivers to support various sensors and peripherals: ISP, IMU, touch, proximity, ALS, OSPI, HyperRAM.
• Integrate and bring-up networking support for BT, BLE, Wi-Fi use cases.
• Optimize system resource utilization for power management. 
• Optimize audio and video pipelines to support hands free display use case.
• Participate in bring-up and testing of new hardware.
• Participate in design reviews and provide technical feedback.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including optical engineers, mechanical engineers, firmware/software engineers, industrial designers, and the production team.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, new technologies, and best practices.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 8+ years of industry experience, or Master’s degree with 5+ years of experience.
• Experience with microcontroller programming and embedded systems: ARM M55 and A32 cores, CMSIS toolbox and APIs.
• C, C++ Programming Expertise.
• Experience with industry standard protocols including USB, I2C/I3C, I2S, SPI, UART, SDIO, JTAG.
• Experience with embedded operating systems: Zephyr, FreeRTOS, Linux.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new challenges.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience with developing embedded systems with multiple cores, audio, video and networking.
• Experience with Alif Ensemble and/or STM32 MCUs.
• Experience programming display systems: MIPI-DSI/CSI, LVDS.
• Experience with camera systems: image sensors and ISPs.
• Experience with audio recording and playback in an embedded device.
• Experience programming video embedded graphics libraries: LVGL.
• Experience programming wireless networking stacks: BT, BLE, Wi-Fi.
• Experience with battery and power management.
• Familiarity with laboratory equipment such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies used for debugging HW and FW.

Avegant is a well-funded, venture-backed technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. We are pioneering innovative hardware and software solutions that will forever change how we learn, play, work and interact with each other. We’ve won multiple awards, our team is best in class, and we’re just getting started.

Avegant is about the journey of innovation, together as a team. Interested in joining us? Apply today.