Firmware Engineering Lead

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ABOUT US: Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead. Skip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device , the MO/GO , develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years. The Role: We're building powered wearable robots for everyday life — devices that sit at the intersection of motor control, real-time embedded systems, and edge compute. We're 22 people, all senior, all contributing directly to product. This role leads a small firmware team while staying hands-on with the systems that matter most. You'll set the technical bar for how we build firmware at Skip, and develop the engineers around you while doing it. What you'll own: Leading and growing a small firmware engineering team, including hiring, mentorship, and technical direction End-to-end embedded C/C++ across our stack, including FreeRTOS, interrupt handling, JTAG/SWD debugging, and chip bring-up Data communication between peripherals and microcontrollers (ESP32, STM32 and their successors), including Wi-Fi and BLE Secure OTA pipelines and bootloader implementation AWS IoT Core infrastructure: mTLS, MQTT, fleet provisioning, IoT Jobs OTA Firmware for motor control across a range of actuators including BLDCs, custom PMSM and axial flux motors, cycloid gearboxes, and series elastic actuators (currently on c2000, evolving) Technical direction for ch

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