First firmware hire at an AI-powered safety company with a major oil & gas contract and industrial pilots launching this summer.

Audyse is building intelligent PPE that restores clear communication and real-time situational awareness in the world's loudest, most dangerous workplaces. Our headsets suppress harmful noise while preserving speech, alarms, and environmental cues, paired with a software platform that gives safety teams live exposure data and actionable insights.

We've already shipped 400 consumer headsets to 16 countries, completed 4 hardware revisions in 12 months, and navigated international manufacturing from Newfoundland. We've secured a major R&D contract and have 5 industrial pilots committed for this summer.

As our first dedicated firmware developer, you won't just write code, you'll own the firmware architecture, make critical decisions about reliability, connectivity, and power management, and ship software that performs in industrial conditions where failure isn't an option. You'll work directly with our CEO and CTO.

‍AI-Native Development

We're an AI-native team. You'll use Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot daily to accelerate development, generating drivers, test harnesses, utilities, and boilerplate, then critically review and harden that code for production embedded systems. AI isn't a replacement for deep embedded engineering judgment. It's a multiplier. If you're not already using AI tools in your embedded work, you should be curious and motivated enough to start on day one.

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What You'll Do

As a Founding Firmware Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting, building, and scaling the firmware powering Audyse’s IoT headsets. You will:

• Own firmware development as we scale from prototype to fleet deployment.
• Architect and harden device firmware for reliability, uptime, and long-term field use.
• Develop and maintain secure bootloaders, OTA update flows, and system resiliency.
• Collaborate closely with our CTO and a lean cross-functional engineering/ops team.
• Prototype new features and integrations rapidly, influencing hardware and product direction.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development of modular components, diagnostics, and test infrastructure — while maintaining strict code quality and system-level integrity.

We value strong judgment, ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving. Experience matters—but how you think and execute matters more.

What You Need

• 5+ years developing and deploying production firmware for MCUs or system-on-modules
• Strong proficiency in Embedded C/C++, specifically targeting ARM/STM32 platforms
• Experience with FreeRTOS (tasks, drivers, memory, synchronization, timers)
• Wireless & connectivity experience: 4G LTE (AT commands/PPP), Wi-Fi, MQTT, sockets/web servers
• Power management and low-power optimization
• Bootloader/secure boot and OTA firmware update design
• Hardware bring-up: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers (Saleae), JTAG/SWD
• Strong documentation habits and clean, maintainable software architecture
• Startup mindset: thrive on ownership, ambiguity, and speed
• Experience scaling firmware for production environments with minimal oversight
• Comfort using AI-assisted coding tools to increase velocity while maintaining embedded-system rigor

Bonus if you have this experience...

• Hardware-in-the-loop testing (HITL)
• ECAD experience (Altium or similar)
• Mixed signal (ADC/DAC, analog front-ends)
• RF experience (antenna matching, link budgets)
• Production programming and test fixture development
• EMC pre-compliance testing and mitigation
• Prototype bring-up and early hardware validation
• Python/Bash for test automation

Don’t meet every bullet but excited about what we're doing? Apply anyway. Many excellent candidates don’t tick every box and we are looking for team players with talent.

Benefits

• You're joining a founding team. Your firmware will be on running on devices deployed this summer.
• Direct access to the CEO and CTO.
• Competitive salary + equity (your success is tied to ours!)
• Flexible PTO
• Hybrid Work Environment

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