Embedded Software Engineer (Shenzhen)

Posted 20 Days Ago
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18 Locations
Entry level
3D Printing • Hardware • Other • Software • Design
Formlabs develops accessible Low Force Stereolithography (LFS) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers.
The Role
As an Embedded Software Engineer at Formlabs, you'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design and develop embedded systems software for 3D printers. You'll write robust code, implement best practices, lead embedded software design, and contribute to firmware updates. Your work will impact products shipped globally.
Summary Generated by Built In

To reinvent an industry, you have to build the best team. Join Formlabs if you want to bring ground-breaking professional 3D printers to the desktop of every designer, engineer, researcher, manufacturer and artist in the world.

3D printing requires a complex interplay of software, hardware, and electronics – our embedded engineers are the essential component that ties these teams together. As an Embedded Software Engineer at Formlabs, you’ll collaborate with electrical engineers, systems engineers, and the rest of our software team to build, shape, and define our embedded systems.

Suppose you’re excited to hack on firmware and create elegant solutions to problems on real-world products. In that case, we want you to join the R&D Team as an Embedded Software Engineer

The Job:

  • Work with a small, multi-disciplinary development team to architect and build software for execution on bare metal, RTOS, or Embedded Linux operating systems
  • Provide technical leadership on embedded software design and development
  • Write robust and reliable software that will be shipped to thousands of machines worldwide
  • Implement best practices for clean, well-documented code
  • Deliver impactful features to our users by releasing stable firmware updates to thousands of machines
  • Assess third party and open source software
  • Make engineering tradeoff decisions and present them to members inside and outside the team
  • Participate in developing a long-term technology roadmap for the team and company

You:

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Mastery of C and modern C++, as well as comfortable with Python
  • Have developed and received feedback on software that was delivered to thousands of customer machines
  • Ready to collaborate with a wide range of technical disciplines including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
  • Familiarity with inter-process communication (IPC) middleware for embedded software services
  • Proficiently in embedded software development for RTOS and Embedded Linux
  • Experience in hardware bring-up using interfaces like ADC, GPIO, SPI, I2C, etc.
  • Experience with Software Development processes including source control, bug tracking, and design documentation
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to present complex technical ideas 

Bonus Skills:

  • Experience with any of the following: Linux Kernel, BSP (Board Support Packages), Yocto, OpenEmbedded, Graphics, and Display Drivers.
  • Experience with concurrent applications in Real Time Operating Systems
  • Experience using software infrastructure tools such as Docker, Git, CMake
  • Familiarity with ESP32, STM32, PIC, or NXP microcontrollers
  • Familiarity with creating robust communication and networking protocols
  • Security and cryptography
  • Passion and experience in 3D printing

We Offer:

  • An inclusive office with diverse and inspiring colleagues
  • Shares in the company (we’re a Unicorn company)
  • Unlimited 3D prints
  • Fun team events

Perks are subject to adjustments and may vary from team to team.

We build amazing things.  Come join us!


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply. Help us build an inclusive community that will change the face of 3D printing.

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The Company
HQ: Somerville, MA
750 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We’re a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers. Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs now employs over 700 people across offices in Germany, Japan, China and Somerville, Massachusetts. We're committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.

Why Work With Us

We’ve built a team 700+ strong across the world, and still counting. We look for people with an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to question the status quo, and a high capacity to get things done.

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Building the 3D tools of the future is not an easy task. To reach this ambitious goal, we need to react fast, iterate, and make changes on the fly. Our teams observe a flexible hybrid, where we all aim to be in office 3 days/week when possible.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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