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Firmware Engineer at Tovala | LAYIQ

Required
5+ years of professional firmware or embedded software engineering experience, including shipping firmware to a fleet of internet-connected devices in production.
Strong fundamentals in C/C++ and embedded systems — RTOS, memory, timing, interrupts, real-time constraints, and the discipline that comes with code running on devices you can’t easily reach.
Experience working in Python, Bash for build tooling as well as testing automation
Comfort working with (or willingness to quickly learn) the Squirrel programming language and the Electric Imp platform.
Experience with common embedded interfaces and protocols: I2C, SPI, UART, and the network stacks (BLE, Wi-Fi, TLS, MQTT/HTTPS) that connected products depend on.
Experience with CICD and automated test workflows, ideally Github automations and workflows..
Demonstrated, hands-on experience with AI-assisted software development. You’ve integrated AI tools into your daily workflow and can speak concretely about how they’ve changed the way you build, test, and debug firmware.
Excellent communication skills. You can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to engineers, hardware partners, and non-technical stakeholders, and you write things down.
Strong problem-solving instincts — you dig into root causes, think about second-order effects, and find pragmatic solutions in messy real-world systems.
A degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or commensurate experience.
Nice to Have
Direct experience with Electric Imp OS and Squirrel.
Experience with ESP32 and modern embedded toolchains (ESP-IDF, FreeRTOS).
Experience with cloud IoT infrastructure — AWS IoT Core, device shadows, OTA pipelines, telemetry ingestion — even at a contributing rather than owning level.
Familiarity with web technologies both front end and back end as well as databases — Typescript, React, Flask, Go, SQL
Manufacturing and factory tooling: Experience building or supporting the systems that flash, provision, and verify firmware on the production line, and debugging them remotely with overseas manufacturing partners across time zones.
Hardware-adjacent skills: For example, ability to read schematics and PCB layouts, comfort on a bench with an oscilloscope and logic analyzer, ability to spec an alternate component, basic familiarity with switch-mode power supplies.
Experience working in a connected consumer product or food-tech company.
Who You Are
Solution-Minded: You focus on outcomes, not output. You want to understand the customer problem before you start writing firmware, and you’re not precious about your approach if a better one emerges.
AI-Forward: You see AI tools as a fundamental shift in how software — firmware included — gets built. You’re already using them daily and have thoughts on how teams should adopt them in safety-conscious, hardware-adjacent contexts.
Cross-Functional Collaborator
: You thrive working alongside hardware, thermal, quality, manufacturing, ops, and backend teammates. You communicate clearly and care about the end-to-end product experience.
Startup Mindset
: You’re comfortable in an environment where priorities evolve and where your work has direct, visible impact on customers’ kitchens.
Curious and Adaptive
: You stay current on hardware, firmware, and AI tooling, and you have a favorite microprocessor brand — maybe even a favorite oscilloscope brand.
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