Embedded Software Engineering Manager

About Formlabs:

Do you want to change how the world creates?

At Formlabs, we’re building tools that let anyone bring ideas to life, from cutting-edge products to life-saving medical devices. Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping everyone design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before.

We’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us.

Your Impact:

Firmware turns a Formlabs printer from a box of boards, motors, lasers, and sensors into a machine people trust for a 12-hour print. It runs on more than 130,000 printers in dental labs, hospitals, factories, and engineering teams, from the Form 4 and Form 4L to the Fuse 1+ and Fuse X1. As our Embedded Engineering Manager, you'll lead the embedded software team that writes it, across microcontrollers and embedded Linux. We're adding new printers over the next few years, so the platform you build now decides how fast each new machine comes up and how well it holds up in the field.

What You’ll Do:

• Own delivery of embedded firmware for current and upcoming printers: hit program milestones, set the quality bar, and decide with program leads what ships now and what waits.
• Stay hands-on. Review architecture and code, debug on target hardware next to your engineers, and write code when the team needs another pair of hands.
• Set direction for a shared embedded platform (drivers, communication stacks, RTOS and embedded Linux integration, bootloaders, firmware updates and build infrastructure) so each new printer reuses what works instead of starting over.
• Hire strong embedded engineers, coach them toward their best work, and deal with performance problems directly and early.
• Partner with electrical engineering, systems integration, mechanical and software teams from board bring-up through production, and trace field failures back to root cause.
• Build the test automation, CI, and static analysis that let the team ship firmware updates to a large installed base without breaking it.
• Question requirements and cut work that doesn't matter to customers, so the team spends its time on what does.

About You:

• Experienced embedded software engineer who has shipped production firmware in C and C++ for complex electromechanical products such as robots, consumer electronics, medical devices or industrial equipment.
• You've led a team of embedded or firmware engineers, including hiring and managing performance.
• You've taken multiple products from prototype to volume production and supported them after launch.