Founding Firmware Engineer

About BootLoop

Hardware is hard, and firmware is a big reason why. It’s tough to write, harder to test, and when it breaks, systems can fail in catastrophic ways with fixes costing millions. And before you can even get to that point, it’s difficult to find firmware engineers. These hurdles make it incredibly slow to bring hardware to market and can have devastating impacts on hardware companies both large and small.

At BootLoop, we’re building the first AI agent for firmware - AI that truly understands our clients’ hardware. We parse all the documentation on the system being built, from schematics to data sheets to system diagrams, then use that knowledge to generate firmware, test cases, and find bugs. But we don’t stop there - we test every line we create directly on-device so that companies can be guaranteed working code in minutes, not months.

All our clients are building the cutting-edge of technology, from rockets to fusion power plants to supersonic aircraft to medical devices. If you want to be part of the future, this is a rare opportunity to work with some of the most transformational companies in the world from every field imaginable.

The Role

As we continue to scale our product, we're seeking a resourceful, product-focused founding engineer to help us build a world-class firmware development platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on role - you'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, exercising real ownership over the BootLoop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.

What You'll Do

• Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, and implement product features across our desktop application and cloud stack in close collaboration with customers
• Build systems that handle complex technical requirements for engineering customers building mission-critical systems
• Build world-class user experiences that raise the bar for firmware developer tooling
• Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions
• Define and evolve a technical roadmap across our entire product portfolio, steering technology stack and development practices based on what's actually driving results
• For example, you might:
• Build a zero-error computer vision system for extracting information from hardware documentation
• Create ontologies for chip and sensor systems to unify datasets across many domains
• Design agentic flows across firmware development verticals, from debugging to real-time triage and root-cause analysis

About You

• 4+ years in software development, with significant experience building products for highly-technical users (engineers, developers, technical teams)
• Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies
• Full-stack technical expertise - you can architect, implement, debug, and deploy across frontend, backend and all technologies in between
• Experience with web technologies (React, Node.js) and Python
• Developer tools or infrastructure experience - you understand engineer workflows and pain points deeply
• Data-driven approach to building, measuring impact, and iterating quickly

Nice to Have

• Embedded development or firmware experience working with hardware, real-time systems, and low-level code

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary
• Significant equity: 1.5 - 3% stake in a seed-stage company as founding engineer
• High-impact role: You'll define how this product gets built and own critical features end-to-end
• Direct founder access: Work side-by-side with CEO/CTO daily, shape company strategy
• Cutting-edge product: Build something genuinely innovative that helps companies build world-changing technologies
• Health & benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation