Lead Embedded Firmware Engineer – Contract

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Lead Embedded Firmware Engineer developing production firmware for Matter-enabled devices at Very. Collaborating with hardware teams for device lifecycle management and certification.

Posted 5/19/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $100 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flash

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing production-grade firmware for Matter-enabled devices from bring-up to certification
Owning firmware development across the full device lifecycle
Participating in hardware debugging and validation
Collaborating closely with hardware engineers and cross-functional teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years professional embedded/firmware engineering in C/C++
Significant experience with ESP-IDF — not Arduino wrappers
Direct, demonstrable work implementing Matter on ESP32-series silicon
Hands-on with at least one Matter transport at the firmware level
Experience debugging commissioning flows, interop failures, and protocol-level issues
Familiarity with secure boot, flash encryption, and device attestation in the Matter context
Comfortable reading specs (Matter, Thread, 802.15.4)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching

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Hard Skills & Tools

embedded engineeringfirmware developmentCC++ESP-IDFMatter implementationESP32debuggingsecure bootflash encryption

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem-solvingcommunication