# Firmware Engineer

Mill is a waste prevention technology company reimagining what it means to eliminate waste, starting with food. We build smart systems and infrastructure for homes, businesses, and municipalities that transform food scraps from landfill-bound waste into valuable resources, including chicken feed. Tens of thousands of Mill’s residential food recyclers are already helping households divert millions of pounds of food scraps every year, paving the way for our upcoming launch of Mill Commercial-the industry’s first end-to-end solution for managing, understanding, and preventing food waste in commercial environments (e.g. grocery, restaurants, food services). At Mill, we are passionate about building easy-to-use, beautifully designed technologies that keep food in the food system and out of landfills. As a Firmware Engineer at Mill, you’ll be working with a small dynamic team on a novel product. Your day-to-day will include hands-on work with hardware components and lab equipment as well as production code. Since we’re a small team, your work and learning will span Development, Testing, and Debug as we push towards launch. This role is for someone who wants to learn and be creatively cha

- **Id**: 1161448
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mill-firmware-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Bruno, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-23T19:24:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T06:24:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2990
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Waste Management, Home Appliances

## Company

- **Id**: 7705
- **Name**: Mill
- **Domain**: mill.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mill>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 185000
- **Max**: 210000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **Embedded C** — Optional: no
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-23T23:59:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 72
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.795
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 70
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:mid, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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