Senior Firmware Engineer

Department: External

Location: Europe

Employment Type: FullTime

Our client is an innovative health tech company developing next-generation wearable technologies that enhance human capabilities and improve quality of life. The company building intelligent bionic limbs and sensor systems that redefine human capability.

Their flagship products combine advanced sensor systems, embedded software, and machine learning to deliver highly personalized and responsive user experiences. With a strong engineering culture and cross-functional collaboration, the team is focused on solving complex real-world challenges in a meaningful, impact-driven domain.

Key Responsibilities:

• Firmware development for upper limb prostheses and other related products ensures robust, efficient, and compliant solutions. The development needs may include creating PoCs for new features and products, complex bug investigation and fixes that may require collaboration among different departments, etc.

• Firmware development for specific tools used for prosthesis manufacturing.

• Requirements analysis, solution design, and task decomposition for new features and products.

• Collaborating inside the FW team using Scrum-like methodology. Code Review.

• Collaborating closely with hardware, manufacturing, mobile application, QA, and other teams to ensure integrated and optimized solutions.

• Taking part in the complex embedded solutions design and their architecture improvements according to the scalable project needs.

• Documentation support.

Experience Required:

• Strong proficiency in C programming

• Experience with bare-metal and RTOS-based firmware development, low-level device driver implementations, and CLI-based build environments (Shell/Bash, Make, CMake)

• Familiarity with the operation principles of MCU/CPU and their peripherals (including communication interfaces)

• Familiarity with the operation principles of embedded software and related topics (interrupts, booting, multithreading, multiprocessing)

• Experience with BLE-based solutions

• Strong debugging skills at system level

• Understanding basic principles in electronics and basic operation of key electronic components

• Ability to read and review schematic diagrams.

• Ability to work with soldering iron and measurement equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power source, etc.). General prototyping skills​.

• Proficiency in Git.

• ⁠Written and spoken English at least B2.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with STM32, nRF52, or similar MCUs

• Familiarity with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or other prototyping platforms

• Knowledge of C++ or Python 3

• Experience with motor control algorithms or DSP

• Experience designing complex embedded architectures

• Experience with Wi-Fi-based embedded solutions

Personal Attributes:

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills

• High level of ownership and independence

• Attention to detail and engineering quality

• Passion for continuous learning and delivering robust solutions that improve people’s lives

• Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams

What’s in it for you:

• Opportunity to work on meaningful, real-world products with direct human impact

• Strong ownership of modules and technical decisions

• Well-structured engineering processes and experienced leadership

• Collaborative environment with cross-team knowledge sharing

What we offer:

• Real opportunity to influence product decisions and shape key solutions

• Focused work on dedicated modules and projects with clear ownership

• Well-structured processes led by an experienced team lead

• Cross-team review culture that supports quality and knowledge sharing