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Firmware jobs on Hacker News - Who is hiring, and how demand trends

How demand for Firmware trended in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts since 2011: a live monthly mention chart in share and raw counts, plus the real job postings behind every bar.

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Postings mentioning it
1,056
This month (Oct 2026)
7
Peak month
Apr 2022 (15)
Mention remote
22%
1,056
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Job postings

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Monthly Firmware job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

Firmware job postings for October 2026

  1. experiencedevin · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …review and change our China partners' schematics and C C++ BLE firmware (ESP32 nRF), co-design the BLE protocol under tight latency budgets, integrate the IMU and body sensors (separating real body signals from the device's own vibration), and take us from prototype through EVT…

  2. rossng · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …If you think that 'full-stack' could reasonably mean debugging firmware, mixing buckets of mortar _and_ writing React components, we are looking for you. Robotics experience not required! Take a look inside our software stack: https: www.youtube.com watch?v=eh9BfQoKCy0 https:…

  3. eu-tech-tak · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …user-space apps on our embedded Linux camera, and help shape the firmware architecture and Linux platform. You won't be writing drivers or doing low-level hardware work. Day to day that means Yocto system services, D-Bus and device trees, BLE Wi-Fi with GATT and Protobuf…

  4. azaslavsky · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …team I'm on, Vehicle Software, makes a full in house control stack (firmware, flight computer, autonomy, ground support) in Rust. Data collected from our operations is served by a blazing fast front end written in Typescript, Svelte, and WASM, served by a Rust API. Our launch-day…

  5. matternous · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …integrated front-end systems. You’ll work with systems engineers, firmware developers, and customers from early architecture through production. Looking for: - US citizen - 3+ years of hands-on RF engineering, hardware design, or wireless communications experience. - Strong RF…

Some popular Firmware job postings

The Firmware job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. m00dy · hiring in Aug 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …been pretty shady, think hidden background scrapers bundled into TV firmware or mobile apps, combined with predatory payout systems that hold provider funds hostage for months. We’re taking a different approach: Fully Open-Source Clients: Our GUI [1] and CLI [2] are completely…

  2. jul23 · hiring in Apr 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …(Linux & ROS level) - Embedded C C++ (typically owned by dedicated firmware engineers, but software engineers are welcome to learn!) - Linux, CUDA, Server engineering for our AI safety, security, and verification work - Custom simulation software (usually python) - Data analysis…

  3. asciimike · hiring in Jul 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …across the stack: everything from low level systems programming firmware on XPUs, automating building controls and datacenter robotics, automating compute and network provisioning and recovery from failures, securing our networks and facilities, and software across dozens of…

  4. ayeeye1careers · hiring in Mar 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …constraints + vendor SDK realities 2. Hiring: Independent Embedded Firmware Engineer (Bring-up Audit & Stability) (Remote UK EU preferred) We’re shipping on real hardware. Reliability beats elegance. We need a senior embedded engineer to audit and validate our assumptions and…

  5. red_balloon · hiring in May 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    …at back end code; it means being comfortable with operating systems, firmware, and signals going over the wire. You'll succeed here if you are a quick learner who loves working independently on tough, technical problems nobody has ever solved before. Day-to-day tasks might…

What the Firmware hiring trend shows

This page charts how often Firmware appears in the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread, one bar per calendar month across the whole history. Switch between share mode - Firmware's slice of the market each month - and raw counts for absolute hiring volume, narrow the window to the last year, 5 or 10 years, and click any month to read the actual postings that mention Firmware: the companies, the seniority, and the rest of the stack they ask for.

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