# Staff Firmware Engineer, AI Native, Edge ML

Hiring organization: [Life360](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/life360)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/58bee5ba-85f3-4ffd-b153-3daf70bd3379

Listed on Life360's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: Remote, USA; Remote, Canada
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 143000 – 261500 USD per year

## Summary

This role owns the design and implementation of Life360's first on-device machine learning platform for resource-constrained firmware, serving hundreds of thousands of tracking devices. It suits experienced firmware engineers who combine deep embedded systems expertise with hands-on edge ML deployment experience and want to architect infrastructure rather than maintain existing code.

_Our summary, not Life360's wording._

## Skills named

C++

## Required

- 10+ years firmware engineering shipping consumer hardware at scale
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Deep C/C++ expertise and RTOS internals (Zephyr, FreeRTOS, or equivalent)
- Low-level hardware skills: SPI/I2C/UART, DMA, interrupts, driver development
- Hands-on debugging with oscilloscope, logic analyzer, JTAG
- Demonstrated production deployment of ML models on microcontroller hardware
- Experience with embedded inference frameworks (TFLite Micro, CMSIS-NN, ExecuTorch)
- Model optimization experience: quantization, pruning
- Ability to develop and train models, not only deploy
- Signal processing and sensor data pipeline knowledge (IMU and similar)
- Daily use of AI coding tools as a genuine development partner
- Strong written communication and cross-functional documentation habits

## Nice to have

- Secure boot, key provisioning, signed OTA, and RF/regulatory certification (FCC/CE)
- Hands-on cellular, BLE, GPS/GNSS, or audio subsystems on battery-powered wearables
- New-board bring-up and hardware verification
- Hardware schematic review and EE partnership
- Manufacturing test development and production-line support

Apply on Life360's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/life360/jobs/8675235002