Firmware Engineer

Steinmetz is building the next generation of American power electronics. The next generation of great machines — electric vehicles, robotics, aerospace, and industrial systems — depends on power electronics that are lighter, cheaper, more efficient, and built at real scale.

Steinmetz is hiring a firmware engineer for a new power electronics product we’re bringing to market.

At Steinmetz we deal with incredible challenges, and we have a very high-bar for talent. The ideal person for this role is someone who can take ownership and execute, the type of person who when faced with a challenge can work to find a solution.

• Write Rust firmware for resource-constrained microcontrollers
• Design and validate high-frequency power electronics control loops
• Design and bring up the software integration for our hardware test suites
• Work on test fixtures for our manufacturing line

• Experience in Rust programming
• Understanding of firmware fundamentals
• Ability to learn quickly
• Resilience

Steinmetz builds high-power electric propulsion and power-conversion hardware end-to-end: from semiconductor packaging and gate-drive electronics through firmware, controls, thermal/mechanical design, and MW-scale validation.

We are tool-agnostic and use whatever gets the design to real hardware fastest. A sample of the problems we work on:

• Rust firmware for embedded power electronics
• 100 kHz-class switching controls, protection loops, and fault handling
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing, telemetry, calibration, and automated bring-up

• MW-scale power electronics simulation, test, and validation
• Nanosecond-scale semiconductor switching and high-dv/dt design
• Custom chip / power-module packaging
• Gate-drive, sensing, isolation, EMI/EMC, and fault-protection hardware

• Thermal management for high-power systems, including vacuum environments
• Lightweight mechanical structures for high-vibration platforms: aircraft, cars, rockets, boats, etc.
• Aluminum structures, busbars, enclosures, cooling paths, and manufacturable packaging

• Custom test stands for high-voltage, high-current hardware
• Rapid prototyping across PCBAs, machined parts, harnesses, and assemblies
• Design-for-test and design-for-manufacturing on real production-intent hardware