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Staff Firmware Engineer

Watney Robotics· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Firmware engineer role focused on developing and bringing up firmware for Watney’s robots’ mainboards and actuators, building a common firmware base, and collaborating with ML and mechanical teams to prototype and validate sensors.

Responsibilities

  • Lead board bring-up with manufacturing partners, from specification discovery through first boot.
  • Write the drivers and hardware abstraction layers that run on our microcontrollers and actuators.
  • Build and run automated hardware-in-the-loop tests across embodiments.
  • Build the common firmware base for mainboards and actuators, in Rust and C.
  • Work with the ML and mechanical teams to prototype and validate new sensors.

Qualifications

  • Have shipped production firmware to millions of devices.
  • Have written production firmware in Rust, C, or both.
  • Have debugged communication buses on real hardware.
  • Have built or operated hardware-in-the-loop test infrastructure.
  • Have worked with contract manufacturers or OEMs to turn ambiguous requirements into a board layout.
  • Have worked with electromechanical systems or cameras and optics, electrically, mechanically, or in software.
  • Have working knowledge of electrical engineering and either field-oriented control or RF.

Skills

Required:Production firmware developmentRustCHardware-in-the-loop testingBoard bring-up with manufacturing partnersElectrical engineering fundamentals
Nice to have:Electromechanical systems / optics
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Watney Robotics

Watney develops autonomous robotics systems to operate datacenter and supercomputing infrastructure.

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