Embedded Software Engineering Manager
Lead Formlabs' embedded software team writing firmware for its 3D printers (Form 4, Fuse series) across microcontrollers and embedded Linux — managing and hiring engineers, owning a shared embedded platform (drivers, RTOS/Linux, bootloaders, OTA, CI), and staying hands-on with C/C++ code and hardware debugging. On-site in Somerville, MA.
- Compensation
- $170K–$250K / yr
- Location
- Somerville, MA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Embedded
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Shipped production firmware in C and C++ for complex electromechanical products (robots, consumer electronics, medical devices, industrial equipment)
- Led a team of embedded/firmware engineers, including hiring and managing performance
- Taken multiple products from prototype to volume production and supported them after launch
- Comfortable from bare-metal microcontrollers to embedded Linux and multicore processors, using Python for tooling and testing
- Brought up boards and peripherals (ADC, PWM, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet), can read schematics, debug with scope and logic analyzer
- Profile and optimize firmware for performance, memory, and power; diagnose issues across connected controllers using logs and trace data
- Make decisions with incomplete information, move quickly, explain customer impact of technical calls
- Communicate clearly with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers, plus product and program leads
Nice to have
- Linux kernel experience, such as writing device drivers
- Firmware for motion control, lasers or optics, or thermal systems
- Over-the-air (OTA) updates and device security for connected products
- Supporting a large fleet of connected devices in the field
- MISRA C or other safety-critical coding standards
- Passion and experience in 3D printing
- Background in electronics or robotics
Full description
About Formlabs:
Do you want to change how the world creates?
At Formlabs, we’re building tools that let anyone bring ideas to life, from cutting-edge products to life-saving medical devices. Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping everyone design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before.
We’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us.
Your Impact:
Firmware turns a Formlabs printer from a box of boards, motors, lasers, and sensors into a machine people trust for a 12-hour print. It runs on more than 130,000 printers in dental labs, hospitals, factories, and engineering teams, from the Form 4 and Form 4L to the Fuse 1+ and Fuse X1. As our Embedded Engineering Manager, you'll lead the embedded software team that writes it, across microcontrollers and embedded Linux. We're adding new printers over the next few years, so the platform you build now decides how fast each new machine comes up and how well it holds up in the field.
What You’ll Do:
- Own delivery of embedded firmware for current and upcoming printers: hit program milestones, set the quality bar, and decide with program leads what ships now and what waits.
- Stay hands-on. Review architecture and code, debug on target hardware next to your engineers, and write code when the team needs another pair of hands.
- Set direction for a shared embedded platform (drivers, communication stacks, RTOS and embedded Linux integration, bootloaders, firmware updates and build infrastructure) so each new printer reuses what works instead of starting over.
- Hire strong embedded engineers, coach them toward their best work, and deal with performance problems directly and early.
- Partner with electrical engineering, systems integration, mechanical and software teams from board bring-up through production, and trace field failures back to root cause.
- Build the test automation, CI, and static analysis that let the team ship firmware updates to a large installed base without breaking it.
- Question requirements and cut work that doesn't matter to customers, so the team spends its time on what does.
About You:
- Experienced embedded software engineer who has shipped production firmware in C and C++ for complex electromechanical products such as robots, consumer electronics, medical devices or industrial equipment.
- You've led a team of embedded or firmware engineers, including hiring and managing performance.