Firmware Intern
WindBorne SystemsWeather Intelligence company
Redwood City, United StatesIntern
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About the role
TL;DR
Firmware Intern to build codebases for weather balloon hardware, solving embedded systems challenges.
- •WindBorne Systems is seeking a Firmware Intern to develop codebases for their proprietary weather balloon hardware.
- •This role involves working at the intersection of hardware and software to solve unique challenges in extreme conditions with limited power and update capabilities.
- •Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain drivers & low-level libraries for new chips, modules, & sensors.
- •Own and refine the custom open-source RTOS hardware abstraction layer, Amslah.
- •Optimize custom sensor hardware and calibration infrastructure for power and extreme cold survival.
- •Design fault-tolerant systems that can recover gracefully from unexpected conditions.
- •Debug highly non-trivial issues in complex embedded systems.
- •Requirements Experience programming, shipping, and maintaining hardware in a real-world setting.
- •Excitement for rapid iteration over perfect planning.
- •Fluent in C/C++ and Python.
- •Experience writing low-level drivers for various chips.
- •Comfortable reading PCB schematics and ideally some EE experience.
Required skills
CC++Python
Domain expertise
aerospaceclimatetech
Tech stack
CC++Python