Embedded Systems Engineer - Remote

Torus is headquartered in Utah and is expanding manufacturing at our 540,000-square-foot facility in Salt Lake City called Giga One.
Our mission is to build the world’s first mesh energy infrastructure — built to unite people and communities through resilient, secure, and intelligent power. We design, engineer, manufacture, install, and support our systems end-to-end, standing behind them throughout their lifecycle. Torus systems help reduce costs, lower emissions, and protect facilities from outages, while strengthening the security and reliability of the broader utility grid.

Torus is committed to American manufacturing, engineering excellence, and building energy systems that last.

At Torus, you will be part of something larger than a single product or technology. Your work will help build energy infrastructure that supports critical systems, industry, and communities for decades to come. We value accountability, collaboration, and clear thinking. We are looking for people who want to solve hard problems and build things that matter.

We’re building energy storage and management solutions that help:

• Homeowners become their own renewable energy provider—saving money and reducing carbon emissions.
• Commercial and industrial businesses reduce their operating costs while increasing reliability.
• Grid operators keep the electricity grid stable and cost efficient.

Torus is hiring a Staff Embedded Systems Engineer to be a senior level individual contributor on our firmware team, working in close partnership with our Firmware Architect. This is a hands‑on role where you'll translate architectural direction into well‑engineered, production‑grade firmware, raise the technical bar across the team, and take deep ownership of the most complex problems in our embedded stack—from serial protocol integrations to fleet‑scale deployment and field diagnostics.

Our firmware application layer is Python on Embedded Linux (Yocto)—not C, not C++. This was a deliberate architectural choice:
Python gives us speed‑to‑market, flexibility to respond to changing grid program requirements, and a clean separation between hardware and application logic. Our comms are primarily RS‑485, so Python runtime overhead is seldom the limiting factor.

If you've been writing Python to control hardware over serial protocols—in energy, robotics, industrial IoT, or test & measurement—you'll feel immediately at home here. If you've spent your career in C/C++ and are looking for that, this probably isn't the right fit.

Each Torus device generates over a million data points per day and integrates with our cloud platform via MQTT/AWS IoT. Our systems also participate in Virtual Power Plant (VPP) programs, responding to real‑time dispatch signals from utilities—which means our firmware decisions have direct, measurable impact on grid operations.

In this role, you will report to our Head of Embedded Systems and will be responsible for:

• Supporting and mentoring a small team of firmware engineers—ensuring technical direction matches the architectural intent, reviewing designs, and building a culture of responsiveness and collaboration.
• Developing firmware features across our energy storage product lines: telemetry, control loops, cloud connectivity, and hardware abstraction layers.
• Owning system integration —working closely with hardware, data, and software teams to ensure seamless interoperability across the full stack.
• Driving quality through design reviews, automated testing, and documentation. (We believe engineers own their own QA.)
• Debugging and optimizing real‑time embedded applications and serial communication interfaces in the field and in the lab.
• Supporting scaling operations —deployment tooling, remote monitoring, and root‑cause analysis of field issues across a growing fleet.
• Participate in on‑call rotation for escalated technical issues.

You're a systems thinker who's comfortable owning a problem end‑to‑end—from a register on a Modbus device to a graph in a customer dashboard. You care about code quality without letting it become a bottleneck. You're energized by…