# Firmware / Software Engineer

About Build AI Build AI is the data hyperscaler for Physical AI. We're vertically integrated across hardware, manufacturing, logistics, collection, and model training to scale the physical labor dataset orders of magnitude faster than anyone in the world. Job Summary We're hiring firmware/software in Shenzhen for the devices that record physical labor. The job is the path from sensor to bits leaving the device: capture, storage, reliability, and enough software that a factory team can flash, test, and ship. You sit next to PCB and mechanical, not in a pure software org. Key Responsibilities Own firmware end-to-end on collection devices: boot, camera capture, storage, upload, recovery when the field is messy Bring up new boards with PCB: clocks, buses (I2C, SPI, UART, USB), cameras, power - read the schematic, use a scope, close the bug Build flashing, factory programming, and test software so we can make devices in volume (HIL or production validation a plus) Develop diagnostics, logging, and enough host-side glue that SF data infra can ingest without a snowflake per SKU Optimize for reliability and throughput, not a demo that dies after an hour Work with SF software (data inf

- **Id**: 203866
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/build-ai-firmware-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shenzhen, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-30T03:16:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T07:57:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 70
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3182
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 456056
- **Name**: Build AI
- **Domain**: build.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/build-ai>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 300000
- **Max**: 600000
- **Currency**: CNY
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 90086

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 70

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T04:31:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.366
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 70
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 90086
- **Is top pay**: no

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