{"id":913468,"url":"https://alion.io/job/reflex-robotics-senior-firmware-engineer","title":"Senior Firmware Engineer","company":{"id":176976,"name":"Reflex Robotics","domain":"reflexrobotics.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/reflex-robotics","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"}},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Physical AI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"RTOS","optional":false},{"name":"TCP/IP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-14T17:45:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-14","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T23:00:58Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":55,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":55},"description":"Company Overview\nReflex Robotics builds general-purpose, AI-powered humanoid robots for the toughest jobs in industry.\nWe’re focused on jobs that are genuinely hard on the human body: lifting 40-pound bags of dog food, loading boxes for an entire shift, and moving heavy materials from floor to high overhead shelves. Not just lightweight tasks in controlled environments. Actual, back-breaking work.\nFactory and warehouse work demands more. The hardware needs strength, reach, precision, speed, and the battery life to be useful across multiple shifts. It also needs to deliver a clear return today, not in some hypothetical future. Our robot costs $32K at development volumes today.\nWe build the full robot stack ourselves, from cameras and compute to actuators, electronics, and software. Our custom-built supervision stack helps handle the hard parts of deployment, from real floor variability to keeping work moving without line disruption. That supervision also generates proprietary real-world data that helps improve autonomy over time.\nWe are a four year old startup backed by Khosla Ventures and a team of other great investors. Our team includes alumni from Anduril, Oculus, Amazon, Waymo, Skydio, Boston Dynamics, ASML, MIT, Jane Street, and Joby Aviation.\nKey Company Beliefs\nWe are obsessed with shipping robots.\n\nA humanoid robot is only valuable if it solves a real customer problem. Cool demos are fun, but reliable work is what matters.\n\nLow cost is what makes widespread deployment possible.\n\nHigh-quality, proprietary robotics data is the foundation of the next generation of physical AI.\n\nGetting nerd-sniped by an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers’ biggest pain points.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe develop custom servo actuators, compute, networking, cameras, sensors, and electronics for our robots. These systems need to be performant, reliable, cost-effective, and tightly integrated with the rest of the robot.\nWe are looking for a firmware engineer to own embedded systems across the robot, from initial hardware bring-up through firmware development, testing, and validation. You will work directly with new board designs, read schematics, bring up peripherals, develop device drivers and firmware features, and debug problems across hardware and software.\nYou will work closely with electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers to define requirements and make sure firmware and hardware work together reliably.\nSome of the problems you may work on include:\nBringing up new custom PCBs and validating processors, sensors, peripherals, and communication interfaces\n\nDeveloping device drivers and firmware features for new and existing hardware\n\nDebugging issues across firmware and electrical hardware\n\nDesigning and validating communication over interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, and USB\n\nCharacterizing, testing, and validating firmware and board designs\n\nWe love engineers who have built systems they are genuinely proud of, whether that is a shipped product, a difficult technical project, or something they built outside of work.\nRequired Qualifications\n6+ years of professional firmware or device driver development experience\n\nStrong embedded systems and firmware fundamentals\n\nStrong C programming skills\n\nExperience developing firmware in RTOS environments\n\nStrong hardware bring-up experience, including reading schematics and debugging new boards\n\nExperience with low-level interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, USB, and CAN\n\nComfortable debugging with JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers\n\nExperience developing device drivers and working with microcontrollers and peripherals\n\nStrong understanding of software engineering best practices\n\nAbility to work effectively across electrical, mechanical, controls, and software teams\n\nBS or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience\n\nBonus Qualifications\nFamiliarity with compilers and toolchains targeting ARM Cortex architectures\n\nExperience with Python or other scripting languages\n\nExperience with configuration and release management, continuous integration, unit testing, and regression testing\n\nFamiliarity with time synchronization between devices\n\nExperience with Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols\n\nSignal processing experience\n\nRobotics experience\n\nCompensation: $200,000-$250,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.\nCome Join Us\nReflex is de-risked enough to see the hazy outlines of success, but still small enough that there’s enormous upside for grabs. This is a rare opportunity to help build a flagship robotics company from the ground up and to do work that will truly matter, reshaping what people believe is possible in robotics.\nWe love to see the things you’ve worked on. Have a portfolio or a project that people tend to say 'wait, you built that?' when you describe what you worked on? Share it. 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