Build the future of industrial safety

Audyse is reimagining industrial safety with AI-powered smart PPE that enables clear communication, real-time awareness, and live telemetry in the harshest environments. As our first firmware engineer, you won’t just write code. You’ll own the firmware stack, make critical decisions, and help shape the future of our product and company.

This is a high-ownership role. You’ll work closely with the CTO and a lean, cross-functional team to design firmware that performs reliably in real-world industrial conditions, not just in the lab.

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 10 → 10,000+ devices.
• 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.

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

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

• 💰 Competitive salary + equity (your success is tied to ours!)
• 🏥 Health and Dental Insurance
• 🗓️ Flexible PTO
• 🏡 Hybrid Work Environment

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