Staff Firmware Engineer

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Staff Firmware Engineer Mountain View, Mountain View,, California, United States At Rhoda AI, we're building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $400M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality. You will own the development of Rhoda's low-level firmware stack for distributed real-time control across humanoid platforms. This role centers on deterministic communication, control-loop synchronization, and embedded software robustness in an EtherCAT environment spanning dozens of joints, sensors, and distributed controllers. You will design, implement, and validate firmware components that guarantee sub-millisecond coordination between motor drivers, safety controllers, and perception nodes - bridging the mechanical, electrical, and control domains. This role is a Senior MTS reporting directly to the VP of Hardware Engineering, with a clear path to grow into a managerial role as the firmware and controls team scales. What You'll Do - Select and tune RTOS; define priorities and scheduling; optimize interrupt and DMA paths; harden watchdogs and recovery; measure and guard timing budgets - Design, implement, and maintain low-level firmware for real-time motion control nodes over EtherCAT - Develop synchronization and communication layers ensuring deterministic cycle times (

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