Senior Firmware Engineer

We are recruiting a Sr. Firmware Engineer to contribute to our IoT teams

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🌎About garden3dWe are worker owned creative collective, innovating on everything from brands and IRL communities to IoT devices and cross platform apps. We share profit, open source everything, spin out new businesses, and invest in exciting ideas through financial and/or in-kind contributions.

Our client roster includes Google, Stripe, Figma, Hinge, Black Socialists in America, ACLU, Pratt, Parsons, Mozilla, The Nobel Prize, MIT, Gnosis, Etsy & Gagosian.

We’re the software team behind innovative products like The Light Phone & Mill, and we operate a global, decentralized community space collective called Index Space.

We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.

🔮 Who We're Looking ForWe're looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer who owns their work completely - someone who can walk into a hardware bring-up, assess the state of the firmware, and immediately know what needs to be done and in what order. You don't need a spec to get started and you don't need a manager to tell you when something's off.

You've shipped real products. You know the difference between firmware that works in the lab and firmware that survives in the field — and you build for the latter from day one. You're comfortable making architectural decisions under ambiguity, and you document those decisions so the team can follow.

In this role, you'll work across a range of embedded initiatives, from connectivity and OTA infrastructure to display integration and sensor pipelines, finding pragmatic, cost-effective solutions to hard real-time problems. You'll collaborate directly with hardware engineers, product teams, and clients, and you'll be expected to hold your own in all three rooms.

Responsibilities will include:

Owning firmware architecture decisions across one or more active product platforms
Bringing up new hardware revisions and integrating peripheral drivers with minimal ramp time
Monitoring deployed firmware in the field, triaging issues, and shipping fixes with urgency and discipline
Designing and implementing wireless connectivity flows - pairing, OTA, reconnect logic, fleet health
Reprocessing and validating firmware behavior across hardware variants and edge cases
Integrating new sensors, actuators, and communication modules into existing firmware architectures
Participating in code reviews and holding a high bar - style, correctness, and long-term maintainability
Keeping close track of project scope, timeline, and technical risk - and surfacing problems before they become crises
Communicating directly with clients to align deliverables with constraints when scope and reality diverge

🧗 Who you areThe person we’re looking