Are you a firmware engineer?

Intel
btoy

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btoy
Sep 3, 2017 7 Comments

Please post your company name. What product do you work on. What are your job duties. Are you happy with your role and pay?

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  • Lucid Motors / Eng
    #define

    Go to company page Lucid Motors Eng

    PRE
    Tesla Motors, Lucid Motors
    BIO
    Software Engineer
    #define
    I am a Firmware Engineer working at Lucid Motors.
    I've always enjoyed coding, however, firmware just intrigues me more.
    It is fun working on ECU's and their peripherals. The satisfaction I get from flashing my code onto something tangible and seeing it behave as I wrote/thought it to be is much more than I would than developing software.
    Sep 3, 2017 0
  • Microsoft / Eng
    El Boracho

    Go to company page Microsoft Eng

    BIO
    Oh what a cocky son of a bitch. You'd love working for me.
    El Boracho
    Not a firmware engineer but used to be. I highly recommend it as part of your bag of experiences.

    Pro: It is viscerally satisfying to write code that makes real physical things happen. And for smaller systems it's empowering to work on a system you can almost keep fully paged into your brain.

    Con: software discipline is shit. Lots of messy, poorly factored code with magic numbers and a "get it working and move on" mentality.

    Pay wasn't materially different than a pure software role for me.
    Sep 3, 2017 2
  • Broadcom Ltd. / R&D
    BI53457

    Go to company page Broadcom Ltd. R&D

    PRE
    Intel
    BI53457
    Staff FW at Broadcom doing Wifi fw. Mostly happy, but a lot of work in architecture and spec development last couple of months makes me a bit less happy. I want to code!
    Oct 21, 2018 0
  • Square / Eng
    iLAn11

    Go to company page Square Eng

    iLAn11
    Lots of them at Square. We have a bunch of in-house hardware and a very talented team behind it all.
    Sep 3, 2017 0
  • Uber / Eng
    Suckerberg

    Go to company page Uber Eng

    Suckerberg
    Sounds cool
    Sep 3, 2017 0