We are recruiting a Sr. Firmware Engineer to contribute to our IoT teams
🌎About garden3d
We 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.
We'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:
The person we’re looking for is happy, relaxed and easy to get along with. They’re flexible on anything except conceits that will lower their usually outstanding work quality. They work “smart”, by carefully managing their workflow and staggering features that have dependencies intelligently — they prefer deep work but are OK coming up to the surface now and then for top level / strategic conversations.
We believe people with backgrounds or interests in design, art, music, food or fashion tend to have a well rounded sense of design & quality — so a variety of hobbies or side projects is a big nice to have!
🔑 Must Have Competencies:
💪 Nice to Have Competencies:
The pay scale in on a contract basis, ranging $150-200k/year based on experience.
Our interview process starts with a call where you get to meet a few members of our team. From there we’ll ask appropriate candidates to take part in a technical exercise which helps illustrate skill level and comfort.
Important Reminders
Kindly submit a complete and thoughtful application, including relevant links that help verify your work experience and identity. Applications with missing or insufficient information will not move forward in the review process.
Our team carefully reviews every complete submission, and we truly appreciate the time and effort you put into applying.
