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Salary: USD 170,000 - 250,000 / annual
Formlabs builds 3D printing technology used by over 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, and NASA. The company powers innovation across dental labs, hospitals, factories, and engineering teams.
As Embedded Software Engineering Manager, you will lead the embedded software team responsible for firmware that runs on 130,000+ printers globally, spanning microcontrollers and embedded Linux platforms. You'll own delivery of embedded firmware for current and upcoming printer models (Form 4, Form 4L, Fuse 1+, Fuse X1, and future products), hitting program milestones and setting the quality bar for what ships.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own firmware delivery across multiple printer platforms; collaborate with program leads on prioritization and release decisions
- Remain hands-on: review architecture and code, debug on target hardware alongside engineers, and contribute code when needed
- Design and evolve a shared embedded platform (drivers, communication stacks, RTOS, embedded Linux integration, bootloaders, firmware updates, build infrastructure) to accelerate new product launches
- Hire and develop strong embedded engineers; address performance issues directly and early
- Partner across electrical engineering, systems integration, mechanical, and software teams from board bring-up through production; trace field failures to root cause
- Build test automation, CI pipelines, and static analysis to enable safe firmware updates to a large installed base
- Challenge requirements and eliminate work that doesn't matter to customers
You will work in a hands-on builder culture focused on shipping products that people trust for 12-hour production runs.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Shipped production firmware in C/C++ for complex electromechanical products (robots, consumer electronics, medical devices, industrial equipment)
- Led a team of embedded or firmware engineers, including hiring and performance management
- Taken multiple products from prototype through volume production and supported them post-launch
- Comfortable across bare-metal microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and multicore processors; proficient with Python for tooling and testing
- Hands-on board bring-up and peripheral experience (ADC, PWM, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet); can read schematics and debug with oscilloscope and logic analyzer
- Can profile and optimize firmware for performance, memory, and power; diagnose multi-controller issues using logs and trace data
- Make decisions with incomplete information, move quickly, and explain technical decisions in customer terms
- Communicate effectively with electrical, mechanical, and software engineers, as well as product and program leads
BONUS SKILLS:
- Linux kernel experience (device drivers)
- Firmware for motion control, lasers, optics, or thermal systems
- Over-the-air (OTA) updates and device security
- Experience supporting large fleets of connected devices in the field
- MISRA C or safety-critical coding standards
- 3D printing domain knowledge
- Electronics or robotics background
