Founding Engineer – Firmware & Backend for AI Wearables

MaxIT Consulting
San Francisco, CA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

We are seeking a Firmware & Backend Engineer – AI Wearables & Edge Systems to work at the intersection of wearable hardware, firmware, cloud systems, and real-time AI infrastructure. This role sits closest to the physical device and requires genuine firmware experience combined with strong systems and backend engineering capabilities.

What You Will Do

Work directly with wearable-device firmware and hardware platforms, develop backend infrastructure supporting real-time multimodal data pipelines, and own components across device, backend, and cloud infrastructure.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have approximately 1 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience, hands-on firmware or embedded systems experience, and strong backend or systems engineering fundamentals.

Requirements

  • Approximately 1 to 4 years of relevant engineering experience
  • Hands-on firmware or embedded systems experience
  • Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS, device SDKs, or comparable low-level systems
  • Strong backend or systems engineering fundamentals
  • Comfort working close to hardware and debugging across software and device boundaries
  • Experience shipping production systems in fast-moving engineering environments
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