Hark
Haptics Firmware Engineer
San Jose · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$300kDetected 44 days ago
PythonC++Agentic AIEmbedded SystemsSignal ProcessingCommunication
About the role
- We care a lot about how things feel, and how the people that use them feel, and we want someone who shares that craft mindset.
Responsibilities
- Write real-time firmware in C and C++ that drives motion and haptic systems.
- Stand up early hardware, prove out feel and timing in prototype form, and shape the final shipping experience alongside product and industrial design partners.
- Hark is looking for an experience-focused, hands-on embedded engineer to build haptic and motion control system firmware and software that deliver incredible interaction experiences.
- Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence.
- We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines.
Requirements
- 5+ years writing firmware for microcontrollers in C and C++.
- Comfort on the bench with scopes, logic analyzers, and bus traffic over I²C, SPI, or I²S.
- Working knowledge of Python or another scripting language for measurement automation and quick data analysis.
- Clear written communication - you can explain a tradeoff to a non-firmware teammate without losing them.
Nice to have
- DSP fundamentals: filtering, time-domain shaping, and basic perceptual modeling.
- RTOS experience or comfort with bare-metal scheduling for hard real-time control loops.
- Prior work on consumer haptics, audio, or other systems where feel and timing are visible to the user.
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Compensation
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $120,000 - $300,000 annually.
- The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
- The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role.
- This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Benefits
- One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.
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