Firmware engineer (freelance position)

Company: Kickmaker
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Kickmaker is a high-tech product design and industrialization agency.We support our customers from prototype to production run in our main vertical markets (medical, new mobility, electrification, agrotech, robotics, IOT, and consumer devices) and our cross-disciplinary skills (embedded AI, high-tech manufacturing automation, eco-design, industrial design, and WEB 3.0 for the economy of functionality).We're evolving with a real maker culture! Passion, excitement, and kindness are the pillars of KICKMAKER. This team and community spirit has enabled us to shape a unique corporate culture. Our approach: to enable everyone to fulfill their potential by working on exciting projects, and to encourage autonomy and initiative.Present in France, China, and the United States, our community counts over 250 passionate kickers and keeps growing. It is in this context that we are looking to strengthen our team in Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco.We are currently looking for subcontractors/freelancers able to work with us on our clients' projects. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting software development on the projects entrusted to you.Your responsibilities will include :

• Definition of project requirements, based on customer needs
• Firmware/software design and development
• Unit testing, functional testing & documentation
• Integration and continuous deployment
• Iterative sprint cycle, taking into account customer feedback
• Guarantee the quality of established processes and compliance with current HSE standards
• Help define eco-design and industrial relocation approaches
• Participate in/implement/perform product life-cycle analysis to improve the CSR impact of products.Required profile :
• Graduate of an engineering school or master's degree in embedded computing
• Successful experience in firmware development for an embedded product
• Microcontroller development in C, C++ on STM32, ESP32, Nordic targets, etc.
• Embedded Linux development (Qt, Yocto, Zephyr, etc.)
• Development of test tools (Python, C#, Java, etc.)
• Knowledge of or familiarity with various technologies, such as :

• Communication bus: UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, RS-232, RS-485
• Wireless communication: BLE, LoRa, LTE
• Electronics skills (schematic reading, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.)
• Good knowledge of motor control and servo algorithms is a plus
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Keywords: Kickmaker, Berkeley , Firmware engineer (freelance position), IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California