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Firmware Engineer

Trackonomy
San Jose, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Jul 2025
💰 $250,000/yr($120,000/yr$250,000/yr)

About the role

Join the Trackonomy Team! 

At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. Join us to evolve professionally in a company that reshapes both industries and individuals.

Connection & Community: You're essential to Trackonomy's mission, and every team member is regarded as a founder.  Collectively, our goal is to make a lasting impact on the world, making every endeavor at Trackonomy a meaningful journey.

Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from our seasoned leaders. Your potential and passion define your trajectory here. We value innovation and offer unparalleled opportunities, making your career journey transformative. At Trackonomy, your growth is multifaceted. Collaborate and learn directly from senior leaders across various departments. Here, your potential—fueled by capability, passion, and results—determines the scope of your role.  At Trackonomy, merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience. It's a level playing field, offering unique opportunities not found elsewhere.

Impact: Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world. From fire prevention to enhanced security, our innovations don't just change industries; they save lives. Join us to be part of meaningful change.

About Trackonomy 

At Trackonomy, we are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects. Our goal is to bring inanimate objects to life, giving them the ability to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Envision a world where our devices seamlessly integrate with every physical entity, facilitating a global conversation among them. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time.  Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC.

Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. 

Are you ready to be a part of the next chapter in Silicon Valley's hyper-growth IoT success story?

Summary:

You will be a core engineer of our early stage team. We work on everything from machine learning, to security, to high performance computing, to IoT devices, to dynamic web apps, etc. Don’t be surprised if you get to touch every system while you work here, often teaming up with other team members on critical work. Candidates must be comfortable working with microcontrollers and low-level hardware control in a test-driven development environment. The ideal candidate will have experience working with wireless communications modules, IoT technologies, RF protocols and have great troubleshooting and prototyping skills. 

This is a full-time onsite role.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

  • At least 4+ years of embedded code experience, with emphasis on C
  • Bachelor/Masters in Electronics Engineering and 3+ years of industry experience
  • Experience with real-time embedded systems
  • Experience with firmware development, testing, and system level bring-up and debugging
  • Experience in conducting bench modifications and fast development of hardware/firmware prototypes
  • Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
  • Collaborative team player with a strong ability to share knowledge, learn from colleagues, and support cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals  

Preferred skills:

  • Strong experience with IoT systems and wireless/wired communication protocols
  • 4+ years of experience in designing firmware that leverages real-time operating systems (RTOS) for time-critical applications using communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, GNSS, WiFi, RFID or low-power IOT based embedded protocols. 
  • Proficiency with debugging tools, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers to troubleshoot and optimize embedded systems.
  • Experience developing bootloaders, firmware over-the-air updates, BLE low-power devices 
  • Experience with Nordic (or similar) Semiconductor platforms 
  • Experience with microcontrollers and

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