Senior Firmware Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

Company Overview

Echo Neurotechnologies is an exciting new startup in the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) space, driving innovation through advanced hardware engineering and AI solutions. Our mission is to deliver cutting-edge technologies that restore autonomy to people living with disabilities and improve their quality of life.

Team Culture

Join a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable and motivated professionals. Our early-stage environment offers the opportunity to take ownership of broad decisions with significant and long-lasting impact. We emphasize continuous learning and growth, fostering cross-functional collaboration where your contributions are vital to our success.

Position Overview:
As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for developing high quality, robust, scalable and testable firmware that runs on Echo’s medical devices. You will play a substantial role in a cross-functional effort to deliver Echo’s first BCI device. You will participate in decision-making processes related to firmware, software, and electronics. You will be involved with the device’s full life cycle development, from gathering product requirements and design inputs, to developing the firmware that meets those needs, and to enabling testing, verification and validation of that firmware.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collect product requirements and design inputs from various teams, and translate them to firmware needs

• Develop firmware (and accompanying software) that meets product requirements and complies with FDA development standards

• Collaborate with electrical, hardware, and software engineers in creating sophisticated medical devices

• Design and implement firmware testing plans for verification/validation purposes

• Create documents describing firmware architectures

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

• 7+ years of experience developing firmware, having participated in a full product development life cycle: proof-of-concept (including working with evaluation boards/dev kits), firmware architecture design and implementation, production release, product support

• Knowledge of medical device development processes, including design controls, risk management, and regulatory compliance for medical devices

• Experience in establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and with partners in different time zones, building trust and demonstrating critical thinking and thought leadership

• Familiarity with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and quality systems relevant to software, such as ISO 62304 and FDA regulations

Skills and Abilities:

• Expert proficiency in C and Python

• Firmware development experience for IoT devices running on ARM Cortex-M processors

• Worked with known microcontroller vendors such as STMicro, Nordic, and NXP

• Understanding of firmware architectures (bare-metal and RTOS)

• Test-driven development, scripts, automation, and CI/CD processes

• Writing clean, well-documented code that follows coding guidelines

• Experience with I2C, SPI, UART, and other popular communication protocols

• Low power optimizations

• Understanding of PCB schematics and writing firmware that meets electrical requirements

• Hardware bring-up

• Working with lab equipment such as DMMs, scopes, logic analyzers

• Hardware/firmware/software debugging

• Git for software version management

What We Offer

• An opportunity to work on exciting, cutting-edge projects to transform patients’ lives in a highly collaborative work environment.

• Competitive compensation, including stock options.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• 401(k) program with matching contributions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Echo Neurotechnologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Confidentiality

All applications will be treated confidentially. Applicants may be asked to sign an NDA after the initial stages of the interview process.