You will not be writing a requirements traceability matrix. You will be designing a board on Monday, bringing up the firmware on Wednesday, and explaining the tradeoffs to a client's VP of Engineering on Friday. That client will act on what you tell them. That is the job. Firia is a small engineering firm in Madison doing commercial product development for clients nationwide in alternative energy, robotics, utilities, medical devices, and building automation. We also build our own products: the CodeBot robot, the CodeAIR drone, the CodeX handheld, and the CodeSpace coding platform, used by students in classrooms across the country. We are not a defense contractor, and we are not a staffing body shop. There is no program office, no legacy stack from 1997, no six-week approval cycle to change a resistor value. When something needs to exist, we build it. What you would actually do Design and bring up embedded hardware: schematic capture, PCB layout, power, RF, bring-up, debug Write firmware that has to work in the field, not just on the bench (C, MicroPython, async and RTOS-adjacent work, multiple µC families) Build the software around it: Python, cloud/backend services, front-end UI, tooling, test rigs Work on autonomous robotics, solar field instrumentation, IoT gateways and mesh networking, and whatever the next client problem turns out to be Sit in the room with clients, including executives, and own the technical story Ship products that real people use, then own the consequences Who we are looking for The AI shift has changed what makes an engineer valuable. Cranking out code is no longer the differentiator. Judgment is. So we care less about which frameworks are on your resume and more about whether you can be handed an ambiguous problem and come back with the right answer, on time, explained clearly.

Specifically:

You build things. Not hypothetically. There is stuff you have made, on purpose, because you wanted it to exist. Personal projects count as much as professional ones, sometimes more. You already use AI to build. Not as a novelty. You have figured out where it multiplies you, where it lies to you, and how to tell the difference. You think independently and say what you think. If the president of the company is about to make a bad call, we need you to say so. Politely, with evidence, but say it. You are organized. Nobody is going to manage your task list. You communicate well. Writing, speaking, whiteboarding, client meetings. This is not optional here and it is not a soft skill, it is a core technical skill. You have taste. You can tell good design from bad, in a product, in a UI, in a circuit, in a codebase, and you care about the difference. You are confident and humble at the same time. Confident enough to own a decision. Humble enough to notice when you were wrong and fix it fast. Technical baseline BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science If your degree is CS, you need real hands-on hardware experience: you can read a schematic, use a scope, reason about voltage and current, and you have been soldering things in your garage for years. We have successfully grown CS grads into strong embedded developers and circuit designers. We cannot grow someone who is not already curious about hardware. If your degree is EE or CompE, you need to be a genuinely good programmer, not someone who writes firmware under protest. We hire across experience levels. A new graduate with a portfolio of things they actually built is more interesting to us than fifteen years of maintaining someone else's program. Why you should pass on this one - or maybe not? The pace is fast and the expectations are high. You will be closer to customers, revenue, and consequences than you would be almost anywhere else in this market, and that cuts both ways. It is exciting and it is real pressure. Some engineers want the cocoon, and that is a legitimate preference. If that is you, pass on this one - save yourself and us some time. If you want to be challenged every day, be given real ownership early, and look back in two years at a set of shipped products with your fingerprints all over them, this is one of the few places in North Alabama where that is on offer. Logistics On-site in Madison, Alabama. This is a hands-on hardware job and a collaborative team, so it is in person, not hybrid or remote. You have to like to work with people :-) To apply Send a resume, and tell us about something you built. A robot, a board, a tool, a weird automation, an app, something you made with AI that surprised you. A paragraph and a link or a photo is plenty. We read those first.

Pay:

$80,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Health insurance Paid time off

Work Location:

In person