Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Requirements:

• Bachelors or masters degree in systems, electrical or computer engineering, or computer science.
• 6–7 years of production programming experience; this role is not suited to recent graduates.
• Experience architecting, bringing up, and debugging electronic hardware, including systems with USB and Ethernet interfaces.
• Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to work across low-level C firmware, higher-level C++ and Python applications, API architecture, and documentation.
• Able to travel for business, including internationally, for up to 10% of the time.
• Self-directed, collaborative, organized, and comfortable asking questions when needed.
• Familiarity with AI tools and workflows, and the judgment to assess their output.
• Bonus: experience with cross-platform software, toolchains, CI systems, and embedded hardware debugging; a thoughtful approach to validation, prioritization, and problem-solving is also valued.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain firmware for RTOS-based control systems.
• Support existing products, APIs, and features.
• Use software to enable advanced hardware features in current and new products.
• Improve our embedded web-server technology stack.
• Create device drivers for system-level integrations involving I/O, controllers, and displays.
• Contribute to embedded-platform and software-platform architecture, helping shape our products and test systems.
• Refine our development toolchains and continuous integration systems.
• Advise on and assist with firmware debugging.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Embedded
• Ethernet
• Firmware
• Hardware
• Support
• Python
• Web
• ARM

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Were Acroname, a profitable Boulder-based company designing, manufacturing, and distributing custom hardware used to test popular consumer devices. Our products support test automation, manufacturing, A/V integration, and other automation engineering applications, serving customers from individual researchers to major electronics companies. Were a small, fast-moving team with decades of experience, a collaborative culture, and a sense of humor; we work hard while respecting that people have lives outside work. This is a full-time, in-person role in Boulder, Colorado, with local candidates preferred and relocation expenses not provided. The position is permanent and available immediately. Compensation is listed at $120,000–$150,000 per year depending on experience, with another posting line stating pay from $125,000 per year. Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) and matching, a retirement plan, health savings account, paid time off, parental leave, employee discounts, a flexible schedule, an RTD bus pass, and potential stock grants. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applicants who meet most, even if not all, of the qualifications to apply.

last updated 43 week of 2026