Embedded Firmware and Controls Engineer (Entry-Level / Intern)

About Us

We are a venture-backed manufacturing startup building the most advanced automated production facilities in the United States. We are on a mission to make American manufacturing economically viable — through intelligent machinery, automation, and a relentless focus on execution.

We are early, we are moving fast, and we are looking for exceptional people who want to build something that matters.

Role Summary

We’re looking for an entry-level Embedded Firmware and Controls Engineer or Embedded Firmware and Controls Engineering Intern to join a small, fast-moving team designing and building large-scale industrial manufacturing equipment. This role works across the low-level firmware and motion control layer of the machine - from embedded code and control loops through hardware integration across a mixed PLC and custom electronics environment - with real hands-on ownership from day one.

Core Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of embedded firmware using modern languages and toolchains for custom electronics integrated into industrial manufacturing equipment

• Implement and tune motion control systems - including servo tuning, trajectory planning, and closed-loop control - alongside senior engineers

• Write PLC control logic in Structured Text and integrate it with machine electrical and mechanical systems

• Work within or alongside real-time operating environments, ensuring deterministic, reliable control at the machine level

• Troubleshoot control and firmware issues across hardware, software, and system boundaries - from logic analysis to live machine debug on the shop floor

• Generate and maintain firmware documentation, version control practices, and controls architecture documentation

• Work directly alongside build technicians, electrical engineers, and mechanical engineers - including remote teammates - to bring up and commission complete machine systems

• Contribute to controls engineering standards and documentation practices as the function scales

Required

• Pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics, or computer science from an ABET-accredited program

• Relevant coursework or projects related to embedded systems, microcontrollers, real-time systems, or control theory

• Programming experience in a language suited to embedded development (Rust, C++, C, or similar)

• Hands-on experience running code on real hardware - microcontroller dev boards, sensors, actuators, or motors - not simulation only