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Software Engineer, Embedded Systems

Meta· Engineering
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Burlingame, CA$154k - $217kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Software Engineer on the embedded engineering team focused on low-level firmware for resource-constrained hardware, covering system bring-up, driver development, RTOS integration, and hardware abstraction layer design for Meta’s connected devices.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware and low-level software components for resource-constrained hardware platforms
  • Develop and debug hardware abstraction layers, device drivers, and board support packages for custom silicon and peripherals
  • Integrate and configure real-time operating systems (RTOS) to meet latency, power, and memory requirements
  • Write automated tests including unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests to validate firmware behavior across expected and error conditions
  • Instrument firmware with logging, metrics, and alerting to support observability and production reliability
  • Collaborate with hardware engineers, silicon teams, and product partners to define firmware interfaces and resolve cross-disciplinary dependencies
  • Participate in code reviews to improve firmware quality, identify common embedded software defects, and share knowledge with peers
  • Analyze and optimize firmware for power consumption, memory footprint, and real-time execution performance
  • Own embedded software components end-to-end, including responding to production issues and maintaining code health through deprecation of obsolete implementations
  • Produce clear technical documentation for firmware interfaces, bring-up procedures, and system behaviors to support current and future contributors

Qualifications

  • Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Degree must be completed prior to joining Meta
  • 5+ years of experience developing embedded firmware or low-level software in C or C++
  • Experience with real-time operating systems (RTOS), bare-metal programming, or embedded Linux environments
  • Experience developing or debugging device drivers, hardware abstraction layers, or board support packages for microcontrollers or SoCs
  • Experience writing automated tests and using debugging tools such as JTAG, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or serial debuggers to isolate and resolve firmware defects
  • Experience analyzing and optimizing embedded software for power, latency, or memory constraints

Skills

Required:Embedded firmware development (C/C++)RTOS experienceDevice drivers / HAL / BSPDebugging tools (JTAG, oscilloscope, logic analyzer)

Benefits

  • Benefits information referenced in posting (see Meta benefits)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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