BootLoop - Founding Embedded Engineer

• Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, implement, and ship features across our platform - from desktop application to cloud stack - in close collaboration with customers • Be our resident creative technologist. Use BootLoop every day to prototype new workflows, discover new product opportunities, and build out experiences that showcase what’s possible Work directly with clients across industries - rockets, fusion, supersonic aircraft, medical devices - serving as a trusted technical partner who helps them solve firmware challenges in the most efficient way possible • Build the tools firmware engineers never had. Design and implement hardware-in the-loop validation systems, simulation frameworks, and automated testing infrastructure that let engineers go from zero to firmware at the click of a button • Push the boundaries of AI-assisted firmware development. Invent novel ways to automate and accelerate the firmware developer experience using our state-of-the-art internal tools and the best external building blocks available • Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions - you’ll have an outsized impact on changing the landscape of firmware development • 4+ years of real-world embedded software experience - embedded Linux, microcontroller, FPGA, or ideally a combination. • Deep toolchain and build system experience. You’ve done the grunt work of setting up the systems that make firmware engineering possible - cross-compilation, CI/CD for hardware, debugging infrastructure. You likely come from a higher-velocity organization where there was no separate tools team. • You’re already the most AI-forward person at your company. You’ve been playing with AI tooling extensively and have strong opinions about how AI should transform firmware development. • Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies. • Demonstrated extremely high degree of ownership and autonomy. You don’t wait to be told what to build - you identify the opportunity, prototype it, and ship it. • Comfortable as a client-facing technical partner. You can talk to engineers at customer companies, understand their problems quickly, and earn their trust. • Builder mentality. You’re not just an ideas person - you can get elbow-deep in cloud stack, firmware, or whatever’s needed to bring a prototype to life.