Senior Embedded Hardware Design Engineer

🕒 December 17, 2025

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Groundup.ai

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔧 Hardware

☁️ SaaS

💰 $4.3M Series A - Groundup.ai on 2025-04

Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • SaaS

Groundup. ai is a technology company that provides AI-powered predictive and cognitive maintenance solutions for industrial customers. It combines agentic artificial intelligence, on-premise and cloud software (CMMS) and proprietary rugged IoT sensors to monitor vibration, sound and temperature, detect anomalies with high accuracy, and recommend root-cause actions to prevent equipment failures. Groundup. ai serves manufacturing, maritime/offshore, oil & gas, and infrastructure clients with deployment, training (Groundup Academy), and analytics to reduce downtime, save costs and improve sustainability.

📋 Description

• Lead technical excellence in hardware design, including analog, digital signal processing, embedded firmware, EMI/EMC compliance, and hazardous area certification. • Ensure thorough verification and validation practices, including functional, environmental, robustness, and compliance testing. • Work in close coordination with software development, product engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing to align design objectives and deliver cohesive, production-ready solutions. • Lead all aspects of the mechanical design of enclosures and chassis, ensuring compliance with thermal, structural, and manufacturability requirements. • Ensure project costs, scope, quality, and development timelines are achieved within senior management goals. • Engage and manage third-party development partners to augment internal design capabilities. • Manage the entire firmware development lifecycle—from architecture, coding (primarily in C/C++), testing, and documentation to final deployment. • Design and review schematics and PCB layouts for rugged industrial hardware. • Develop and implement test plans to ensure system reliability and performance in harsh environments. • Integrate industrial communication protocols such as CAN, Modbus (RTU / TCP), IO-Link, Profinet, Profibus, EtherCAT, and Ethernet/IP. • Troubleshoot and debug both hardware and firmware issues on real industrial systems, including oil & gas machinery. • Ensure seamless data acquisition, transmission, and sensor performance in the field. • Maintain accurate documentation and track bugs, updates, and design changes.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. • Strong professional written and verbal communication skills in both English and Mandarin. • 5–8 years of hands-on embedded firmware development, ideally in industrial or harsh-environment applications. • Strong technical background in electronic circuit design, PCB layout, and product testing. • Strong proficiency in C/C++ for microcontrollers and working knowledge in either Rust or Python. • Professional experience with industrial communication protocols and their relevant functional safety standards. • Professional experience with Low-speed / Local Communication (Between MCU and sensors/peripherals) such as UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter), SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), I2C, 1-Wire. • Professional experience with Wireless Communication technologies such as Bluetooth / BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), Zigbee, LoRa, Wi-Fi. • Proficient in ARM Cortex-M microcontroller development, including startup code, interrupt handling, low-power modes, and peripheral drivers. • Experience integrating wireless LoRa and Zigbee devices with edge gateways (e.g., Linux-based systems, MQTT, Modbus TCP, or cloud APIs). • Expertise in ultra-low power design, including sleep mode optimization and current profiling for battery-powered Zigbee devices. • Professional experience with Zigbee protocol stack (e.g., Zigbee 3.0), mesh network architecture, and integration of Zigbee sensors and gateways. • Hands-on experience with analog and digital sensors for temperature, vibration, and sound acquisition and calibration. • Familiarity with hardware design, schematic capture, embedded systems, and mechanical design integration. • Practical experience working with or designing industrial electronics or sensor-based systems. • Experience with regulatory compliance, including CE, IECEx. • Proven success managing multi-functional engineering teams and delivering complex projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive and market-aligned compensation • Flexible work arrangement • Clear path for Career Growth and Development • Diverse, supportive culture • Focus on employee wellbeing - we prioritize mental health, personal growth and work-life harmony in Groundup.ai • Recent successful fundraise ensuring Company's financial stability