Dephy is looking for a candidate who was born to be an engineer: someone who has an urge to understand how things work, and who gets excited when there is no known solution to the problem at hand. We are curious, creative, and passionate engineers looking for a team member to help us tackle challenges at the forefront of wearable robotics. Come help us transition mobility exoskeletons from labs and treadmills to real-world cities, trails, and mountains.
About the Company
At Dephy, our mission is to empower people to move through life with confidence. That starts with building a team that shares our purpose.
Description of Role
You will work autonomously to design, develop, and optimize firmware solutions that ensure the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of our embedded platform and battery management systems. This includes shipping new features and having direct responsibility for the firmware in company-level projects. Your work will directly impact the performance and longevity of our battery-powered devices. This involves writing drivers that interface with sensors, scheduling, and timing microcontroller tasks, and interfacing with higher-level apps. Lead and mentor engineers through quality review, pair-programming, brainstorming, and testing.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Be a good human - get along with the team, build strong working relationships, and execute on Dephy’s Values.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining embedded firmware dedicated to battery designs. This would be systems that are wireless, and includes the battery management systems
- Proven knowledge of C/C++ programming for embedded systems, Python, microcontrollers (STM32, TI), and real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Demonstrated experience in interfacing with hardware modules and hardware debugging. Skilled with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, hand tools and soldering.
- Familiarity with Altium or other electronic design platforms.
- Experience with ARM microprocessors.
- Strong foundation in implementing firmware features that enable accurate monitoring of embedded systems parameters such as voltage, current, and temperature.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a cross-functional team to implement, develop, and execute rigorous testing plans to validate firmware functionality and reliability.
- Demonstrated expertise in ensuring firmware meets safety standards and regulatory requirements, incorporating fault detection, diagnostic routines, and fail-safe mechanisms to protect battery integrity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose and resolve issues related to firmware, working closely with cross-functional teams to address and resolve problems.
- Professional history with creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation of firmware design, development processes, and testing procedures.
- Experience with Git.
- Experience with Linux and Windows.
Desired Qualifications
- 7+ years of work experience in firmware/ embedded development
- Up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies embedded systems.
- Experience tracking tasks, planning sprints, and maintaining the backlog of high-level projects.
- Familiarity with mentoring and sharing knowledge with all team members, including other engineers, co-ops, and interns, by assigning tasks, training, peer-programming, and giving feedback when necessary.
- Experience with TDD
- Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence)
Other Information
- Start date: 04/01/26
- At Dephy, our mission is to empower people to move through life with confidence. Our goal is to do this by attracting, hiring, and building a team of diverse builders with unique collections of tools, cultures, and experiences. We celebrate our differences and foster an environment for our team to learn and ask questions. We trust and respect each other, and value the cultural contribution that we each bring to Dephy. We believe that when people feel respected and included they can be more creative, innovative, and successful.
- Candidates need to be authorized to work in the U.S.
- This position is not eligible for sponsorship of an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case).
- Salary and equity will be determined based on qualifications: $135,000-$150,000
- This listing is not for reproduction. No recruiters please, only interested candidates.
- Part of the interview process is completing a take home assignment. Please review the assigment here to seee if it is something that fits your skills set: https://github.com/DephyInc/sw-coding-assignment
- Apply at http://dephy.com/
Skills Required
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining embedded firmware
- Proven knowledge of C/C++ programming for embedded systems
- Familiarity with Altium or other electronic design platforms
- Strong foundation in implementing firmware features for monitoring embedded systems
- Experience with Git
- Experience with Linux and Windows
- Professional history with creating and maintaining documentation
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience with hardware debugging and interfacing
- Experience with ARM microprocessors
- Experience with TDD
- Experience tracking tasks and planning sprints using Atlassian tools
What We Do
Dephy is a robotics startup founded in 2016 with the primary mission of bringing humans Beyond Nature™ with performance enhancing wearable robotics technologies. We utilize a practical, hands-on approach to design, build, evaluate and commercialize the world’s most advanced exoskeletons for human augmentation. We are active in the military, academic, business, medical and consumer market.
