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# Senior/Staff Firmware Engineer at BrightAI Corporation

- **Company:** BrightAI Corporation
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/brightai/jobs/5654352004

## Job description

Company Overview:

BrightAI is a high-growth Physical AI company transforming how businesses interact with the physical world through intelligent automation. Our platform processes visual, spatial, and temporal data from billions of real-world events—captured through edge devices, mobile sensors, and large-scale cloud infrastructure—to deliver intelligent, real-time decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware with a strong emphasis on ultra-low power consumption.
- Develop drivers and low-level firmware for microcontrollers (MCUs), sensors, and wireless modules (e.g., BLE, Zigbee, LoRa).
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to define power budgets and validate low-power designs.
- Implement and test power management techniques such as sleep modes, clock gating, and dynamic voltage scaling.
- Perform power profiling and debugging using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, energy analyzers and current probes.
- Optimize code size and execution efficiency in resource-constrained environments.
- Ability to work in a no-OS or lightweight RTOS environment
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and contribute to technical documentation.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices for embedded development.
- Lead the integration of embedded communication protocols like I2C, SPI, and UART, facilitating robust data exchange across various embedded system components.

Skills and Expertise:

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in embedded software development, with a strong emphasis on low power design.
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems.
- Hands-on experience with low-power microcontrollers (e.g., ARM Cortex-M series, nRF52, Ambiq, MSP430).
- Familiarity with RTOS concepts and experience with lightweight operating systems (e.g., FreeRTOS or Zephyr).
- Deep understanding of hardware/software interaction and power management techniques.
- Deep familiarity with source control (Git) and development workflows.

Bonus Criteria:

- Experience with wireless communication protocols (BLE, Zigbee, LoRa, etc.).
- Knowledge of PCB schematics and the ability to work closely with hardware engineers.
- Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).
- Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash) for test automation.
- Prior work on battery-operated or energy-harvesting devices.
- Advanced skills in designing optimized solutions using C for embedded systems with stringent resource constraints.
- Strong background in math-based programming, with the ability to apply linear algebra for complex tasks like digital signal processing and machine learning.
- Experience in developing AI/ML solutions, with hands-on expertise in frameworks such as Edge Impulse, OpenCV and PyTorch for embedded applications.
- Deep experience in system architectures, including event-driven and modular design approaches, as well as abstracting hardware layers (HAL, sensor fusion, application layers).
- Proven experience in developing, maintaining, and scaling CI/CD pipelines, particularly with tools like GitHub Actions, to ensure high-quality, automated build and release processes.

## About BrightAI Corporation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BrightAI provides a Physical AI platform that makes the invisible state of critical infrastructure visible and actionable, enabling proactive operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $51M raised in July 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Alex Hawkinson, Nathan Hanks

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: AI-powered critical infrastructure management
- **Target Customers**: B2B/Enterprise – owners and operators of essential services in water, power, gas compression, pest control, HVAC, and manufacturing
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Beyond human capacity—we take advanced AI and autonomous technology and make the invisible state of physical infrastructure visible and actionable.”

## Products & Services
- **[Stateful Platform](https://bright.ai/)**: An edge AI platform that ingests sensor data and existing operational records to provide continuous monitoring, root-cause diagnosis, automated dispatch instructions, and machine learning. Deployed across physical assets and environments.
- **Workforce Wearables & Copilots**: Real-time AI-powered insights, communication, and operational support for field workers.
- **Asset & Site Visibility**: Real-time monitoring and proactive asset management for long-term system reliability.
- **Autonomous Inspection**: Safe, reliable data collection from remote and hard-to-access sites using robots and drones.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: $75M (estimated, per LinkedIn data)
  - **Total Funding**: $66M (Seed $15M in Nov 2024, Series A $51M in July 2025)
  - **Headcount**: 103 employees (+121.7% YoY)
  - **Deployments**: 250K+ Stateful AI endpoints in the field; 50K+ locations in operating environments
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Series A lead investors: Khosla Ventures, Inspired Capital
  - Partners: Industry leaders in infrastructure (specific names not disclosed)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Surpassed $100M milestone (likely an operating or revenue metric) in mid-2025
  - Added senior leaders from Microsoft, Evernote, and Intel in June 2025
  - 15 active job openings; monthly job posting growth +114.3%, yearly +650%

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proactive vs. Reactive**: Shifts infrastructure management from emergency repairs to continuous, predictive AI-driven operations.
- **Full-Stack Physical AI**: Combines edge computing, computer vision, LLMs, time-series signal processing, and robotics into one platform.
- **Founder Expertise**: CEO Alex Hawkinson previously founded SmartThings (acquired by Samsung) and co-founded EfficientAI and OurSky.
- **Real-World Scale**: Proven across 50K+ harsh environments (pipelines, power poles, mining vehicles).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Edge AI Deployments**: Accelerate adoption of the Stateful Platform across more infrastructure sectors globally.
- **Expand Leadership & Talent**: Strengthen executive team with deep tech and IoT experience to support rapid growth.
- **Deepen Autonomous Capabilities**: Invest in computer vision, LLM/RAG, time-series signal processing, and robotics to further reduce human intervention in inspection and dispatch.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values “Curious, Relentless, Collaborative, Impactful.” Emphasis on hands-on problem solving, ownership, and leaving a legacy.
- **Work Model**: Distributed team across the US (San Francisco to New York); remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but likely flexible given nationwide team.
- **Engineering Environment**: Deep talent pool across AI, embedded systems, cloud, and robotics; engineers work on cutting-edge physical AI problems.
- **Growth Stage**: High-growth company with 121.7% headcount growth YoY and substantial funding, offering career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [BrightAI Homepage](https://bright.ai/)
2. [BrightAI About Us](https://bright.ai/about-us/)
3. [BrightAI Careers Page](https://bright.ai/careers/)
4. [BrightAI Job Board (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/brightai)
5. [BrightAI LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightai)

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