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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Controls

Lucidean

Santa Barbara · Hybrid Full-time Senior $210k – $240k/yr Today

About the role

About

Opportunity to join a well-funded deep-tech start-up working on advanced hardware systems for next-generation AI infrastructure. This Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer role offers hands-on ownership of embedded control systems, working closely with hardware and physics-driven applications in a highly technical environment.

Key Skills / Experience

Required:

  • Strong embedded C/C++ development
  • Bare-metal development
  • Board bring up
  • Experience with STM32 or ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers
  • Proven implementation of feedback control systems (PID, real-time control)
  • Understanding of control theory (stability, phase margin, sampling, latency)
  • Experience with mixed-signal systems (ADC/DAC) and low-level debugging
  • Background working on real-world hardware systems

Beneficial:

  • Experience with optical, photonics, RF, or precision instrumentation systems
  • Familiarity with frequency-domain analysis (e.g. Bode plots, step response)
  • Experience in early-stage or multidisciplinary engineering teams
  • Prior technical ownership or mentoring experience

If you’re interested and think you have the skills required as a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer, please don’t hesitate to apply.

Skills

ARM Cortex-MBare-metal developmentBoard bring upC++CControl theoryEmbedded CPIDReal-time controlSTM32

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