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Firmware Engineer

Voltai · Palo Alto · United States

Full timeElectrical Engineer

Posted: 10/27/2025 · Last checked: 10/12/2026

Job description

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About Voltai
Voltai is developing world models, and agents to learn, evaluate, plan, experiment, and interact with the physical world. We are starting out with understanding and building hardware; electronics systems and semiconductors where AI can design and create beyond human cognitive limits.

About the Team

Backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors, Stanford University, and CEOs/Presidents of Google, AMD, Broadcom, Marvell, etc. We are a team of previous Stanford professors, SAIL researchers, Olympiad medalists (IPhO, IOI, etc.), CTOs of Synopsys & GlobalFoundries, Head of Sales & CRO of Cadence, former US Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Senior Foreign-Policy Advisor to four US presidents.

About this Role
In this role, you’ll design and implement firmware that bridges AI-driven hardware with physical devices. You’ll work across bring-up, control, and diagnostics — enabling adaptive, self-optimizing behavior in real-time systems. Collaborate with electrical, systems, and verification engineers to develop embedded software that powers learning machines.

You might thrive if you have 5+ years of experience in

  • C/C++, RTOS, or bare-metal firmware development

  • Board bring-up, bootloaders, and driver development

  • Debug tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes

  • Control systems, sensor interfaces, or embedded ML

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