# Founding Embedded Engineer

The Role Have you ever wanted to work on firmware for a jet engine and a fusion power plant in the same day? As we continue to scale our product, we’re seeking a resourceful, product-obsessed founding embedded engineer to help us bring about a step change in what hardware companies are able to develop. 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. You’ll be our closest interface to customers, using BootLoop daily to dream up new workflows and product areas, building prototypes, and helping clients solve their hardest firmware problems. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you. The Team BootLoop was founded by Chris and Noah. Chris was previously at SpaceX where he was the Software Lead for the Starship Booster Catch and the Firmware Lead for the Raptor Engine. Noah is an AI/ML researcher who has built edge AI systems spanning the microwatt and milliwatt scale all the way up to agent frameworks, for companies like NVIDIA and L'Oréal. Together, we've built a team of engineers from Uber, xAI, Microsoft, and SpaceX - people who've shipped

- **Id**: 850252
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/bootloop-founding-embedded-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-20T21:07:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:56:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 206
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4539
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Embedded Software & RTOS, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 672575
- **Name**: BOOTLOOP
- **Domain**: bootloop.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bootloop>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 280000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 280000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Edge AI** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 206

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T03:21:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.189
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 205
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 280000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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