Firmware Tech Lead

This is a senior technical role for someone who wants to combine hands-on firmware development with technical leadership, system-level thinking, and cross-team coordination.

The role connects multiple embedded devices, sensors, communication layers, hardware components, high-level software, and real-world physical behavior into one ecosystem. Your role will be to understand this system as a whole and help ensure that firmware development moves in the right direction.

You will not have direct reports. Instead, you will act as a technical owner and coordinator for firmware development, working closely with the Firmware Team Leader, Product Owners, firmware developers, software teams, electronics engineers, testers, and other stakeholders.

The role is approximately 50% hands-on development and 50% technical leadership and coordination.

Your Mission:

Your main responsibility will be to keep the big picture in mind. You will make sure that individual firmware parts, devices, tasks, and technical decisions fit into the larger system. You will help the team avoid duplicated work, respect dependencies between devices, and deliver firmware work in an efficient and realistic order.

You will be the key firmware point of contact for product development, especially in cooperation with the Product Owner and the Firmware Team Leader.

In practice, you will:

• maintain a system-level overview of firmware across devices,
• participate in hands-on firmware development, debugging, prototyping, and technical research,
• coordinate firmware development work with the Product Owner,
• help translate product needs into firmware tasks and technical designs,
• align larger technical decisions with the Firmware Team Leader, who provides guidance,
• identify dependencies between devices and make sure they are handled in the right order,
• prevent duplicated work and unnecessary rework,
• help define, review, and maintain technical specifications,
• lead or facilitate technical discussions, reviews, stand-ups, planning, demos, and other necessary meetings,
• monitor deadlines, deliveries, technical risks, and integration points,
• coordinate with software, electronics, hardware, testing, production, and product teams,
• help developers take ownership of their areas while keeping the whole system consistent.

This role does not mean that you write every specification, solve every problem yourself, or make every decision alone. It means that you are responsible for making sure the important technical questions have owners, the right people are involved, the work is coordinated, and the firmware direction makes sense.

Your Profile:

We are looking for a senior engineer with strong technical thinking. What matters most is your ability to understand complex systems, learn new domains quickly, and make good technical decisions based on facts.

You should have:

• senior-level engineering experience,
• strong experience in at least one of the following areas:
• embedded firmware development,
• distributed systems,
• real-time systems,
• robotic systems,
• complex multi-device software systems,
• the ability to work hands-on with code, debugging, technical analysis, and prototyping,
• the ability to think about architecture and system behavior, not only isolated tasks,
• experience with C++,
• the ability to communicate with people from other domains, including software engineering, electronics, hardware, testing, and product,
• enough technical overlap with electronics and high-level software to ask the right questions and understand the consequences of decisions,
• the ability to organize technical work and keep tasks moving,
• basic experience with technical leadership, coordination, mentoring, or leading development initiatives,
• the ability to work with uncertainty and learn unfamiliar areas quickly,
• fact-based decision-making and honest technical research,
• the ability to use AI tools effectively and responsibly, with a clear understanding of their benefits and limitations,
• fluent English.

Nice to have We will be happy if you also have experience with some of the following:

• STM32 or similar microcontrollers,
• RTOS architecture,
• multi-threaded or real-time programming,
• sensors and embedded peripherals,
• wireless communication or IoT systems,
• Python, C#, or tooling and automation,
• test design for embedded systems,
• technical task management in Jira or similar tools,
• working with product owners or cross-functional product teams,
• military, tactical training, simulation, ballistics, or defense-related systems,
• practical familiarity with weapons or training environments.