Firmware Engineering Intern [Winter]

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid robot, Figure 02, is designed for commercial tasks and the home. We are based in San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It’s time to build.

We are looking for an Firmware Engineer Intern to support the implementation and test of key aspects of our Humanoid software.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high quality C/C++ code in a real-time embedded environment.
• Bring up, debug, and validate firmware on the Humanoid hardware platform, such as actuators, sensors, power distribution system.
• Optimize performance of firmware to meet product requirements.
• Develop test scripts in Python to support test automation or robot calibration.
• Work cross functionally with System Integration, Software Test, and Embedded Software teams to successfully and autonomously ship new features.
• Contribute to the integration of projects into the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure.
• Support hardware/software integration in the lab.

Requirements:

• Graduate student, senior student, or recent graduate in Computer Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 10 weeks internship, 1 to 2 terms preferred.
• Ability to showcase extra-academic activities working on hardware/software projects.
• Fluent with C/C++ and Python.
• Good knowledge of computer architecture and real-time operating systems
• Familiar with communication buses and protocols like CAN, SPI, I2C, UART etc.
• Comfortable using lab instruments (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers…) and debugging tools.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with low level communication protocol driver development, Ethernet and CAN preferred.
• Demonstrated taking features or products from cradle to grave with high levels of ownership.
• Experience with motor control systems.
• Experience with the Bazel build system.
• Experience with Docker containers.