Firmware Engineer

WindBorne Systems is a company focused on enhancing weather models through innovative smart weather balloons. The Firmware Engineer will be responsible for managing the firmware stack, developing drivers, and ensuring the integration of custom sensors into autonomous balloons while overcoming unique challenges related to hardware and software interactions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain drivers & low level libraries for new chips, modules, & sensors
• Own our custom open source RTOS hardware abstraction layer, Amslah. It has many custom features made for our unique application (I’m excited to tell you about them!) but but requires hardening and architecture refinements as we scale
• Push the limits of our custom sensor hardware & calibration infrastructure, ensuring our GSBs are power optimized & survive extreme cold beyond subcomponent specifications
• Work closely with people doing R&D on novel hardware as we seek to improve the accuracy of our meteorological measurements
• Design fault-tolerant systems that can recover gracefully from unexpected conditions
• Debug highly non-trivial issues across hardware and software