Firmware Engineer

Who We Are

HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

About The Role

The System Software team is responsible for firmware, operating system software, hardware-accelerated algorithms, and core developer frameworks supporting our products.  We serve as the glue between our hardware teams and our higher-level software teams, and delight in finding creative solutions to complex, interdisciplinary problems as we bring our product visions to life. As a firmware engineer on our team, you will develop firmware for low-power embedded microcontrollers to coordinate sensors, ensure security and privacy, manage power subsystems, and more.  You will also have plenty of opportunity to develop and grow your own management and leadership skills as you coordinate development efforts with vendors, consultants, and manufacturing partners. 

What You Might Do

• Design and develop firmware and embedded system architecture for leading-edge ARM-based MCUs in our prototypes and products
• Collaborate with the EE, RF, Security, Cloud Services, and AI models team to build high-performance, secure, reliable systems
• Bring up and debug new hardware in the lab and support builds at remote production sites
• Establish and manage performance metrics including code size, model performance, memory footprint, power consumption, latency.

Essential Qualifications 

• 8+ years experience developing firmware for embedded microcontrollers
• Deep experience in embedded firmware with demonstrable knowledge in radio stacks (BT, BLE, Wi-Fi), sensor and audio pipelines, ARM MCU architecture.
• Passionate about low‑power (<1mW sleep) systems, audio subsystem integration, and cloud‑connected embedded devices.
• Proficient in FreeRTOS or Zephyr, Embedded C, C++, protocols, and unit test frameworks
• Comfortable working in large multi-developer codebases