About us

We’re Impulse. We’re a team of engineers, designers, and innovators based in San Francisco who believe making good decisions for your home and the environment should not come at a cost to your lifestyle. We’re dedicated to building delightful, high-performance products for everyday needs that enable rewarding, long-term, scalable solutions for whole-home electrification.

We’re looking for individuals excited to join an early-stage, VC-backed growing company with powerful aspirations to make positive change in a major industry - come build with us!

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop on-device software and firmware for next-generation hardware products at a strongly backed, growing company with a powerful vision of the future that we can build together.

• Work with senior firmware engineers to implement both production and test codebases in C++ running on both bare-metal and Zephyr.

Who you are:

• Eager, motivated self-starter beginning a career in firmware development. 

• Excited about being able to operate with substantial freedom.

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and proactive, can-do attitude.

What you have:

• Engineering degree or related experience in volume hardware and production firmware.

• Significant firmware-development project under your belt, either personal or on a university project (e.g. solar car.)

• Working knowledge of C or C++ is required.

• Working with low-level driver code (SPI, I2C, JTAG, UART, CAN, BLE, Ethernet, USB) required.

• Pluses:

  • Experience using git.

  • Experience with other programming languages such as Python and/or Java.

  • Experience with testing infrastructure.

  • Understanding of RISC architecture; ARM microcontroller architecture.

  • Understanding of processor startup code, BSP, board bring-up, and debugging.

  • Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other standard lab equipment.

What’s in it for you:

• Meaningful equity in a fast-moving company with top investors.

• Generous benefits include health, vision, dental, and fitness.

• Help define culture for what will be a diverse, inclusive, and global team.

We are growing quickly so if you’re interested in joining us but don’t see a job that fits what you’re looking for or if your experience doesn’t quite check all the boxes, please feel free to reach out - we’re happy to connect.

Impulse is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and prohibit discrimination and harassment. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone feels safe and welcome.

This role is in San Francisco, CA.