Founding Engineer - Firmware Development Platform

bootloop • United State
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Join bootloop as a founding engineer to build a world-class firmware development platform. You'll own major product areas, collaborate with founders, and create a team of engineers. This is a hands-on role with real ownership and impact.

Key Highlights
Own major product areas end-to-end
Collaborate with founders on product strategy and technical feasibility
Define and evolve a technical roadmap across the product portfolio
Build world-class user experiences and systems for firmware developer tooling
Technical Skills Required
React Node.js Python Full-stack development Web development Embedded development Firmware development Real-time systems Low-level code
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary
Significant equity: 2.5 - 4.5% stake in a seed-stage company
Comprehensive health insurance
Unlimited PTO
Relocation compensation

Job Description


The Role

As we continue to scale our product, we're seeking a resourceful, product-focused founding engineer to help us build a world-class firmware development platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on role - you'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, exercising real ownership over the BootLoop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.

What You'll Do

  • Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, and implement product features across our desktop application and cloud stack in close collaboration with customers
  • Build systems that handle complex technical requirements for engineering customers building mission-critical systems
  • Build world-class user experiences that raise the bar for firmware developer tooling
  • Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions
  • Define and evolve a technical roadmap across our entire product portfolio, steering technology stack and development practices based on what's actually driving results
  • For example, you might:
    • Build a zero-error computer vision system for extracting information from hardware documentation
    • Create ontologies for chip and sensor systems to unify datasets across many domains
    • Design agentic flows across firmware development verticals, from debugging to real-time triage and root-cause analysis
About You

  • 4+ years in software development, with significant experience building products for highly-technical users (engineers, developers, technical teams)
  • Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies
  • Full-stack technical expertise - you can architect, implement, debug, and deploy across frontend, backend and all technologies in between
  • Experience with web technologies (React, Node.js) and Python
  • Developer tools or infrastructure experience - you understand engineer workflows and pain points deeply
  • Data-driven approach to building, measuring impact, and iterating quickly

Nice to Have

  • Embedded development or firmware experience working with hardware, real-time systems, and low-level code

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary
  • Significant equity: 2.5 - 4.5% stake in a seed-stage company as founding engineer
  • High-impact role: You'll define how this product gets built and own critical features end-to-end
  • Direct founder access: Work side-by-side with CEO/CTO daily, shape company strategy
  • Cutting-edge product: Build something genuinely innovative that helps companies build world-changing technologies
  • Health & benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation

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