BootLoop
Firmware in minutes, not months - rigorously tested on real hardware
Founding Software Engineer
About the role
The Role
As we continue to scale our product, we're seeking a resourceful, product-focused founding engineer to help us build a world-class firmware development platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on role - you'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, exercising real ownership over the BootLoop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.
What You'll Do
- Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, and implement product features across our desktop application and cloud stack in close collaboration with customers
- Build systems that handle complex technical requirements for engineering customers building mission-critical systems
- Build world-class user experiences that raise the bar for firmware developer tooling
- Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions
- Define and evolve a technical roadmap across our entire product portfolio, steering technology stack and development practices based on what's actually driving results
- For example, you might:
- Build a zero-error computer vision system for extracting information from hardware documentation
- Create ontologies for chip and sensor systems to unify datasets across many domains
- Design agentic flows across firmware development verticals, from debugging to real-time triage and root-cause analysis
About You
- 4+ years in software development, with significant experience building products for highly-technical users (engineers, developers, technical teams)
- Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies
- Full-stack technical expertise - you can architect, implement, debug, and deploy across frontend, backend and all technologies in between
- Experience with web technologies (React, Node.js) and Python
- Developer tools or infrastructure experience - you understand engineer workflows and pain points deeply
- Data-driven approach to building, measuring impact, and iterating quickly
Nice to Have
- Embedded development or firmware experience working with hardware, real-time systems, and low-level code
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary
- Significant equity: 1.5 - 3% stake in a seed-stage company as founding engineer
- High-impact role: You'll define how this product gets built and own critical features end-to-end
- Direct founder access: Work side-by-side with CEO/CTO daily, shape company strategy
- Cutting-edge product: Build something genuinely innovative that helps companies build world-changing technologies
- Health & benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation
About BootLoop
Hardware is hard, and firmware is a big reason why. It’s tough to write, harder to test, and when it breaks, systems can fail in catastrophic ways with fixes costing millions. Our clients are building the next-generation of technology, from rockets to fusion power plants to supersonic aircraft to medical devices. If you want to be part of the future, this is a rare opportunity to work with some of the most transformational companies in the world from every field imaginable.
