Firmware Engineer
About Menlo
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable, turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.
The Role
You own the software that sits closest to Asimov's hardware, the code that closes control loops on time, every time. You work from bare-metal joint controllers up through embedded Linux on the robot's compute platform, bringing up new boards, writing drivers for the sensors and actuators that make the robot move, and making sure the timing guarantees the controls and autonomy teams depend on actually hold on real hardware.
What You'll Do
Design, implement, and test real-time firmware in C/C++ for joint controllers, sensor boards, and power management across the robot
Own the embedded Linux platform on Asimov's onboard compute: kernel configuration, device drivers, device trees, and board support packages
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