Electrical & Firmware Engineer
US$95,000 – US$125,000 / yr base salary
Posted 25 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Junior Electrical & Firmware Engineer”
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- Expected experience
- 0–3 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$95,000 – US$125,000 / yr |
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Aescape is a New York-based physical AI and robotics company redefining human recovery through intelligent, precision bodywork, elevating it into a consistent, outcomes-driven practice.
Powered by real-time body mapping, advanced robotics, and proprietary software, Aescape delivers deeply personalized bodywork that continuously adapts to the individual. This creates a superior way for members to move with greater ease, recover more efficiently, and optimize how they feel every single day.
Aescape is building a defining brand for recovery, shifting behavior from a sporadic experience into a progressive, measurable routine, unlocking compounding benefits that build lasting resilience and laying the groundwork for an entirely new category of proactive human health and performance.
Aescape powers recovery across leading fitness, hospitality, and wellness environments, including Equinox, Life Time, Marriott, Hilton, Four Seasons, Pause Studios, and Remedy Place, and is backed by Valor Equity Partners, BroadLight Capital, and Mecha Ventures.
Aescape is looking for a Junior Electrical & Firmware Engineer to join our hardware team and work across the electronics and embedded software that make our robot move and sense. You will support schematic and PCB design, write and debug firmware on our embedded platforms, and spend significant time on the bench bringing boards up, instrumenting them, and fault finding across hardware and firmware. This is a hands-on early-career role on a small, senior team: you will be mentored closely by experienced engineers, given ownership of meaningful subsystems early, and you will ship hardware that real people experience with their bodies. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
This role is based out of our NYC office in Chelsea, onsite 5 days per week.
What You’ll Do
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Electrical Design Support: Support schematic capture, component selection, and PCB layout review for motor drive, sensing, power, and control electronics. Read datasheets closely, run the calculations behind a part choice, and help carry boards from design through fabrication and assembly.
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Firmware Development: Write, test, and debug embedded firmware in C/C++ on our microcontroller platforms: peripheral drivers, communication interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN), sensor integration, and device control. Work within our version control, code review, and release practices.
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Board Bring-Up & Debug: Bring up new hardware on the bench, and debug across the electrical and firmware boundary using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, and debuggers. Solder, rework, and instrument your own test setups.