Firmware Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
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• Minimum of 10 years hand-on firmware development and architecture experience leading to a successful commercial product
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• Experience architecting solutions for multiple products and/or sets of control boards
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• Expert level firmware development in C/C++
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• Intermediate or advanced Python for control and test interfaces
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• Familiarity with build systems, version control, and test driven development
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• Schematic review and hardware debugging tools and techniques
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• RTOS, bare-metal, linux development experience
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• Communications protocol development

• The mission of Psi Quantum's Staff Firmware Engineering role is to contribute to the development of robust and scalable firmware solutions which are integral to the underlying quantum computer system
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• The Firmware Team is part of the larger electronics team at Psi Quantum and collaborates with the hardware, digital design, system architecture, controls software, and quantum system validation teams
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• Collaborate with hardware and system architecture teams to define system-level architectures, board designs, and component selection, with emphasis on timing, signal integrity, and control requirements
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• Lead cross-functional technical discussions to drive firmware architectural decisions and align implementation choices with system performance, reliability, and scalability goals
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• Define, implement, and maintain well-specified interfaces between firmware, hardware, and higher-level software, including low-level drivers, communication protocols, and python APIs
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• Design, implement, and validate embedded firmware across bare-metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux environments, including device drivers, closed-loop control algorithms, calibration routines, and deterministic state machines
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• Partner closely with controls, hardware, systems, and test engineers to integrate firmware into complex systems and ensure correct end-to-end behavior under nominal and fault conditions
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• Mentor senior and mid-level firmware engineers