Quality and leverage

• Debug Across Boundaries: Root-cause problems that span firmware, electrical, mechanical, and component behavior. Drive them to closure and turn them into prioritized work that prevents recurrence across the fleet
• Systemic Quality: Build hardware-in-the-loop tests, fault injection, production test firmware, and diagnostic tools that catch problems before they reach a robot
• Technical Multiplier: Mentor the AMR embedded engineers, review their designs, and help grow the team

Software Stack and Ownership Areas

This role owns board bring-up, motor control, power and battery systems, sensors and I/O, and firmware test tooling for Bolt's mobile base.

Tech Stack

• Embedded: STM32 or similar, C / C++, FreeRTOS or similar
• Communications: CAN, EtherCAT, Ethernet
• Infrastructure & Tooling: Python, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, hardware-in-the-loop rigs

Location

This is an on-site role at our new Boston-area office, where Bolt's mobile base is designed, built, and tested. There's some flexibility on days in the office once you're up to speed. The build area, electronics lab, test floor, and robots are steps from your desk.

Who you are

We're looking for a firmware leader who has taken a battery-powered robot or vehicle from first boards to a fielded fleet. You lead by writing the hard parts yourself, and you know what it takes for firmware to survive thousands of hours on a factory floor. You're comfortable operating with complete independence.

Skills you'll bring

• Experience: 8+ years of embedded firmware development, including leading firmware for a battery-powered product with motors through production
• Motor Control: Hands-on motor control firmware experience (FOC, current sensing, encoders), ideally for traction or steering drives
• Embedded Depth: Mastery of C / C++ on microcontrollers, RTOS design, real-time scheduling, interrupts and DMA, and peripheral drivers
• Bring-Up Skills: Fluent with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and schematics. You diagnose timing, signaling, and electrical issues at the bench
• Power Systems: Experience with power sequencing, BMS communication, and charging
• Leadership: You've led engineers through an NPI cycle and made them better
• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to influence technical direction without direct authority and successfully partner with hardware engineering, motion planning, safety, and executive leadership
• Clarity of Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of synthesizing complex technical risks and strategies for non-technical leadership
• Impact Driven: You relentlessly seek user impact and value execution over technical idealism
• Proactive Simplicity: A relentless drive to reduce complexity, improve operational simplicity, and proactively identify organizational-level technical risks and address them before they become crises
• Excelling in Ambitious Environments: Your best work happened where hardware deadlines were real and the plan changed weekly

Nice to have

• Prior work on mobile robots, AGVs, or autonomous vehicles
• Swerve, omnidirectional, or other multi-wheel steering drive control
• Functional safety development (ISO 13849, IEC 61508)
• Over-the-air firmware update systems for fielded fleets

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is [$200,000 to $230,000], depending on experience. Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at Standard Bots. All full-time employees are eligible for employee stock options. We also offer paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k) to regular full-time employees.

Compensation: $180K - $215K