Founding Embedded Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$180k - $280k + equityFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Founding embedded engineer role focusing on firmware across BootLoop’s platform, reporting to the CTO and collaborating with the CEO. Hands-on ownership of major product areas from desktop to cloud, interfacing with customers, building prototypes, and shaping firmware development tooling and AI-assisted workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, implement, and ship features across our platform - from desktop application to cloud stack - in close collaboration with customers
Qualifications
- 4+ years of real-world embedded software experience - embedded Linux, microcontroller, FPGA, or ideally a combination
- Deep toolchain and build system experience (cross-compilation, CI/CD for hardware, debugging infrastructure)
- Strong AI tooling experience and opinions on AI’s role in firmware development
- Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies
- Extremely high degree of ownership and autonomy
- Comfortable as a client-facing technical partner
- Builder mentality and ability to work across cloud stack, firmware, and related areas
Skills
Required:CC++Embedded LinuxFirmwareMicrocontrollers
Nice to have:FPGAs
Benefits
- Competitive compensation: $180k - $280k base salary
- Significant equity: 1.5 - 3% stake in a seed-stage company as a founding engineer
- Unlimited AI spend - access to tools to accelerate work
- High-impact role with end-to-end ownership
- Direct founder access: work with CEO/CTO
- Health & benefits: comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About BootLoop
Firmware in minutes, not months - rigorously tested on real hardware
BootLoop is building the first AI agent to write and test firmware on real hardware. Existing AI coding assistants fail completely with embedded systems, but our agent ingests datasheets, schematics, and other design files to write firmware in your style and automatically test it on your hardware.