Embedded Software Engineer
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Mason Tucker Embedded Software Engineer

Cupertino, CA • embeddedeng@gmail.com • +1 4085-7777

Profile Summary

  • Embedded Software Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering firmware for consumer wearable and audio devices across consumer audio, fitness wearables, and automotive infotainment, specializing in low-power firmware, RTOS scheduling, and peripheral driver development.
  • Solid technical background across languages (C, C++), microcontrollers (ARM Cortex-M (STM32), ESP32), RTOS (Zephyr), peripheral protocols (I2C, SPI), wireless (BLE), debug tooling (J-Link), and build systems (CMake) with strong fundamentals in datasheet fluency, signal-level debugging, and tight memory and power budgets.
  • Deep expertise in resource-constrained firmware design, deterministic real-time scheduling, hardware abstraction layers, and ultra-low-power operation, leveraging methodologies such as MISRA C and code-review discipline and hardware-in-the-loop testing to drive reliable, certifiable, field-proven firmware.
  • Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Hardware, Mechanical, and QA teams in hardware-led product development environments, contributing to design reviews, EVT/DVT/PVT gates, and post-incident retrospectives with a pragmatic, ownership-first mindset.
  • Emerging leader who shares technical excellence and fosters a culture of firmware rigor and datasheet-grade documentation through PR reviews and runbooks, while leading firmware-engineering guild sessions and authoring widely adopted bring-up and driver templates.

Technical Skills

Languages:
C (C99/C11), C++ (C++14/17), Rust (no_std), assembly (ARM Thumb), Python (host-side tooling)
Microcontrollers & Processors:
ARM Cortex-M0/M3/M4/M7, STM32, ESP32, Nordic nRF52, NXP i.MX RT, AVR, RISC-V
RTOS & Bare-Metal:
Zephyr, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, VxWorks, bare-metal C, startup code, linker scripts, ISRs
Peripheral Protocols:
I2C, SPI, UART, USB, CAN, LIN, Ethernet, GPIO, ADC/DAC, PWM, DMA, I2S
Wireless & Connectivity:
BLE, Wi-Fi (ESP-IDF), LoRa, Zigbee, Thread, Modbus, MQTT, Automotive Ethernet
Debug & Hardware Tools:
J-Link, ST-Link, Lauterbach, GDB, OpenOCD, Saleae logic analyzer, oscilloscope, JTAG/SWD
Build, Toolchains & OTA:
GCC ARM, Clang, CMake, Make, PlatformIO, Yocto, Git, OTA firmware updates, secure boot
Testing & Compliance:
Unity, Ceedling, HIL testing, MISRA C, ISO 26262 (automotive), IEC 62304 (medical), DO-178C (aerospace)

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Urbana-Champaign, IL • Sep 2014 - May 2018

Work Experience

Apple Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Cupertino, CA • Sep 2021 - Present
  • Own firmware development for next-generation wearable audio devices across 3 product generations, leading the firmware stack from application firmware to audio DSP integration and sensor fusion pipelines, shipped on 40M+ units in the field.
  • Drove hardware-software integration on ARM Cortex-M (STM32) and ESP32 SoCs through board bring-up from schematics, register-level driver design with EE counterparts, and signal-integrity triage on prototype boards, bringing up 14 PCB revisions and 4 SoC silicon spins on schedule.
  • Designed the RTOS firmware architecture on Zephyr orchestrating 40+ concurrent tasks, applying priority-inheritance mutexes, deterministic ISR-to-thread handoff, and stack-watermark profiling, cutting worst-case scheduling jitter from 180 µs to 22 µs.
  • Authored 22 peripheral drivers, including DMA-backed I2C and SPI sensor stacks, I2S audio codec drivers with circular buffers, and USB CDC and HID class implementations, sustaining lossless audio at 48 kHz / 24-bit end-to-end.
  • Led firmware performance and power tuning via tickless idle and selective peripheral clock gating, ISR latency reduction on cache-friendly hot paths, and link-time-optimized section pruning, lifting battery life from 22 hours to 34 hours while reclaiming 148 KB of flash.
  • Owned the BLE connectivity stack delivering GATT services for pairing and audio routing, multi-link role coordination, and an OTA update protocol with rollback, sustaining up to 3 paired hosts at a 99.6% field connection rate.
  • Drove hardware-level debugging with J-Link and JTAG/SWD breakpoints in GDB, logic-analyzer captures of I2C and SPI traffic, and oscilloscope timing on critical signals, root-causing 32 escaped field bugs and cutting debug-cycle time from 3.2 days to 9 hours.
Garmin Embedded Software Engineer
Olathe, KS • Jul 2018 - Aug 2021
  • Owned bare-metal startup and bootloader development in C, shipping custom linker scripts, an A/B-slot bootloader with signature verification, and memory-mapped I/O drivers without an OS, keeping the bootloader under 8 KB and hitting 240 ms cold boot across the fitness watch line.
  • Built the firmware test and certification program in C with Unity unit tests on host, hardware-in-the-loop suites against bench fixtures, and MISRA C static analysis with coverage gates, reaching 86% MC/DC branch coverage and earning ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification on the automotive nav line.
  • Modernized the cross-compilation and OTA pipeline using CMake with GCC ARM reproducible builds, signed OTA channels with staged rollout, and a GitHub Actions firmware CI matrix, cutting full-product build time from 38 minutes to 6 minutes and shipping 28 OTA releases without rollback.
  • Worked closely with Hardware, Mechanical, and Industrial Design teams across 6 fitness and automotive product lines to coordinate schematic and BOM reviews, thermal envelopes, and manufacturing test fixtures, authoring 11 firmware design RFCs that shaped the org's firmware standard and onboarding 4 new firmware engineers.

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About this template

An Embedded Software Engineer
Resume Template, by an Engineering Resume Expert.

Real talk: 14 years recruiting in tech, with several years at Google in the middle. I run an engineering resume expert practice now, and Embedded Software Engineer rewrites are a steady niche in my queue. Embedded sits in its own category: closer to hardware than to web or backend, with its own vocabulary. So when I read these CVs, I read them as a recruiter who has placed firmware engineers, not as someone who watched a tutorial about it.

Most who get this far eventually upgrade to the paid rewrite. We work through the silicon you wrote against, the buses you traced on a scope, the watts and microseconds you fought for, the standards you certified to. Plenty don't need that. If a tight, embedded-shaped skeleton is enough, this is it. ATS-clean, free. No signup.

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How to use this template
to write an Embedded Software Engineer resume

The structure here was written by a former Google recruiter. The placeholders force you to be specific exactly where it matters: silicon, RTOS, peripherals, debug practice, and metrics.

Strong Embedded Software Engineer bullets aren't written in a single pass. They build through five stages. Stage one names the task. Stages two and three add the toolchain you used and the silicon or peripheral it targeted. Stage four shows the engineering practice behind the work. Stage five quantifies the result. Bullets that complete stage five are the ones a hiring manager flags for the phone screen. The complete framework lives in How to Write Bullet Points for Tech Resumes.

  1. 01 Task What you did
  2. 02 Toolchain C/C++, Zephyr, GCC
  3. 03 Silicon STM32, ESP32, peripherals
  4. 04 Practice RTOS, MISRA, HIL
  5. 05 Metric Quantified impact

This template hard-wires the five stages into your bullets so the framework runs in the background. The side panel maps clean: language and build picks fill stage 2, MCU and peripheral picks fill stage 3, the practice-pattern fields fill stage 4, the metric inputs land at stage 5. The sentence skeletons cover stage 1. Why this matters: you only need to drop in real silicon, real protocols, and real numbers. The structure handles the rest, and the resume reads at stage 5.

  1. Pick your stack

    Tap a chip to swap C for C++ or Rust, STM32 for ESP32 or Nordic, Zephyr for FreeRTOS or ThreadX, J-Link for ST-Link or Lauterbach. Every mention updates at once.

  2. Drop in your numbers

    Shipped units, board revisions, RTOS task count, scheduling jitter, battery life improvement, flash saved, OTA releases shipped, branch coverage, certification level. Don't have yours yet? The defaults pass for a senior firmware resume.

  3. Save as PDF

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Resume Sample

Embedded Software Engineer Resume Examples

Three sample embedded software engineer resumes at different career stages: a junior EE-to-firmware pivot, a senior automotive IC at an EV manufacturer, and a staff tech lead on defense systems. Use them as inspiration when filling the template above.

Entry-level Embedded Engineer Resume Sample 2 years

Junior Embedded Software Engineer Resume Example

EE-degree to firmware pivot. Ships consumer-electronics firmware features under senior code review.

Lucas Müller

Junior Embedded Software Engineer

San Mateo, CA · lucas.muller@gmail.com · +1 650-555-0142 · linkedin.com/in/lucasmuller

Profile Summary
  • Junior Embedded Software Engineer with 2 years of experience shipping consumer-electronics firmware, specializing in ARM Cortex-M firmware features and peripheral driver work under senior code review.
  • Hands-on coverage across C, basic C++, STM32 and NXP Cortex-M MCUs, FreeRTOS (basic), I2C / SPI / UART / GPIO peripheral interfaces, and JTAG/SWD debugging.
  • Career pivot from an EE degree: comfortable reading schematics, working with hardware engineers on bring-up, and translating signal traces into firmware fixes.
  • Eager collaborator pair-programming with senior firmware engineers, contributing to sprint planning, code reviews, and bring-up debug sessions in a hardware-software co-development team.
Technical Skills
Languages:
C, C++ (basic), Python (scripting), assembly (basic ARM)
MCUs & Platforms:
ARM Cortex-M (STM32 F4/F7, NXP LPC), Nordic nRF52 (basic), basic Yocto Linux
RTOS & OS:
FreeRTOS (basic), bare-metal C, basic Linux user-space drivers
Peripherals & Buses:
I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, ADC, PWM, USB CDC (intro), interrupts
Tooling & Debug:
Git, GitHub, Jenkins (basic), JTAG/SWD, Segger Ozone, GDB, logic analyzer (Saleae)
Testing & Practices:
Unity / Ceedling unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop basics, code review, pair programming
Education
App Academy Software Engineering Immersive San Francisco, CA · Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
San Jose State University B.S. in Electrical Engineering San Jose, CA · Sep 2018 - May 2022
Work Experience
GoPro Junior Embedded Software Engineer San Mateo, CA · Sep 2023 - Present
  • Shipped 12 firmware features across 6 release cycles on the HERO13 camera line in C on an ARM Cortex-M7 target, under senior code review.
  • Fixed 34 firmware bugs across the audio-capture and battery-management subsystems, including 4 hard-to-reproduce timing issues found via logic-analyzer traces.
  • Wrote Unity / Ceedling unit tests, lifting coverage on owned modules from 52% to 76%, with mock-based testing for I2C and SPI peripherals.
  • Contributed to the secure-boot bootloader under senior review, implementing 3 validation checks and the cryptographic-hash verification path.
  • Helped with bring-up of 2 prototype boards, partnering with the hardware team to validate GPIO pinouts, I2C addresses, and clock-tree configuration.
Anker Firmware Intern, then Junior Engineer Bellevue, WA · Jun 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Started as a summer intern, converted to junior in 5 months. Built peripheral drivers on STM32 F4 for portable-power-bank product lines.
  • Shipped 8 features across the charging-controller and LED-feedback subsystems, including a temperature-adaptive throttle that cut thermal-shutdown events by 40% on field-return data.
  • Wrote I2C and SPI peripheral drivers with companion unit tests, contributing to the firmware-team's shared HAL used across 3 product lines.

Senior Embedded Engineer Resume Sample 7 years

Senior Embedded Software Engineer Resume Example

Automotive embedded IC at an EV manufacturer. AUTOSAR, ASIL-D safety mechanisms, and CAN/Ethernet stacks.

Anya Volkov

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · anya.volkov@gmail.com · +1 650-555-0188 · linkedin.com/in/anyavolkov

Profile Summary
  • Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 7 years of experience shipping automotive ECUs, specializing in AUTOSAR Classic + Adaptive, ASIL-D safety mechanisms, and CAN / Ethernet (SOME/IP) stacks.
  • Hands-on coverage across C, modern C++, embedded Linux + Yocto, QNX, AUTOSAR Classic / Adaptive, MISRA C, ARM Cortex-A / R / M, and Vector CANalyzer.
  • Deep expertise in ISO 26262 ASIL-B/D safety-mechanism design, HIL test rigs, secure boot chains, and OTA update systems, with on-call ownership of 3 production ECUs.
  • Engaged collaborator working cross-functionally with Systems, Hardware, Safety, Cybersecurity, and Vehicle Integration teams in V-model and Agile-hybrid environments.
  • Emerging leader who mentors 3 junior engineers, leads safety-mechanism design reviews, and authored 5 ISO 26262 work-products across 2 ECU programs.
Technical Skills
Languages:
C, C++ (modern, C++17/20), Python (scripting), MISRA C, basic Rust
Platforms & OS:
ARM Cortex-A / R / M, embedded Linux, Yocto, QNX, AUTOSAR Classic + Adaptive
Automotive Stacks:
AUTOSAR BSW, CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, Ethernet (SOME/IP, DoIP), UDS diagnostics
Functional Safety:
ISO 26262 ASIL-B/D, safety mechanisms, FMEDA, fault injection, MISRA C, cert-friendly C++
Security:
Secure boot, OTA update systems, HSM integration, cert-based authentication
Tooling & Debug:
Vector CANalyzer / CANoe, Lauterbach TRACE32, GDB, JTAG/SWD, GHS MULTI, GitHub Actions
Testing:
HIL rigs (NI VeriStand, dSPACE), Unity/Ceedling, MCDC coverage, MIL/SIL/PIL flows
Practices:
V-model, code review, RFCs, on-call rotations, mentorship, safety reviews
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Atlanta, GA · Sep 2014 - May 2018
Work Experience
Tesla Senior Embedded Software Engineer Palo Alto, CA · Aug 2022 - Present
  • Owned firmware for 6 ECUs on the Model Y body-control and thermal-management domains in C + AUTOSAR Classic, with end-to-end ownership from requirement to vehicle integration.
  • Led the ASIL-D safety-mechanism design for the thermal-runaway detection path, authoring 4 ISO 26262 work-products and shepherding them through external assessor review.
  • Designed and shipped the CAN-FD migration across 3 ECUs, lifting bus throughput by 4.2x on the powertrain domain and cutting end-to-end latency by 52%.
  • Built the SOME/IP service-discovery layer on QNX for the central compute, handling 180 service offers with deterministic startup under 90ms.
  • Stood up the HIL test rig with dSPACE for the body-control ECU, automating 240 regression test cases and cutting nightly test runtime from 7h to 2.5h.
  • Drove the secure-boot + OTA chain across 3 ECUs, integrating HSM-backed key storage and rollback-protected partitioning per the cybersecurity team's threat model.
  • Mentored 3 junior engineers, ran the bi-weekly safety-review forum, and authored 5 internal RFCs that shipped.
Ford Motor Company Embedded Software Engineer Dearborn, MI · Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
  • Built ECU firmware for the Ford Mustang Mach-E body-controller in C + AUTOSAR Classic, owning 22 SWCs across lighting and access-control subsystems.
  • Implemented UDS diagnostic services ($10, $19, $22, $2E, $31, $3E) per ISO 14229, with full session and security-access state machines.
  • Designed ASIL-B safety mechanisms for the door-latch path, including cyclic redundancy checks on CAN messages and watchdog supervision with E2E protection.
  • Wrote MISRA C-compliant code with zero deviations on owned modules, contributing to a 40% reduction in static-analysis findings across the body-controller team.

Lead Embedded Engineer Resume Sample 14 years

Lead Embedded Software Engineer Resume Example

Defense-systems tech lead. Safety-critical embedded across 8 engineers and 3 program lines.

Rafael Costa

Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Fort Worth, TX · rafael.costa@gmail.com · +1 817-555-0177 · linkedin.com/in/rafaelcosta

Profile Summary
  • Staff Embedded Software Engineer with 14 years of experience leading safety-critical embedded across defense and aerospace, specializing in DO-178C DAL-A/B avionics firmware, secure-comms protocols, and multi-program architecture.
  • Hands-on coverage across C, C++, Ada (legacy), VHDL (read), RTOS internals (VxWorks, Integrity), FIPS-140-3 crypto modules, and JTAG/SWD chain-of-trust hardening.
  • Deep expertise in DO-178C DAL-A/B work-products, anti-tamper and classified-supply-chain rigor, hardware-software co-design, and MIL-STD-810 environmental qualification.
  • Cross-functional leader partnering with Systems Engineering, Cybersecurity, Hardware, Mission Assurance, and Program Management to shape architecture roadmaps and DOD audit cycles across 3 program lines.
  • Tech lead chairing the Firmware Architecture Review Board, leading 8 engineers across 3 program lines, and briefing executives on safety, schedule, and supply-chain risk.
Technical Skills
Languages:
C, C++, Ada 95/2012 (legacy), VHDL (read), Python (scripting), MISRA C / C++
Platforms & RTOS:
VxWorks, Integrity RTOS, bare-metal, PowerPC, ARM Cortex-A / R / M, FPGA awareness
Safety-Critical:
DO-178C DAL-A/B work-products, MCDC coverage, requirements traceability, MIL-STD-882
Security & Crypto:
FIPS-140-3 modules, anti-tamper, secure boot, HSM integration, chain-of-trust hardening
Protocols:
Secure-comms (HAIPE-aware), MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, ARINC 664 / AFDX, TCP/UDP
Tooling & Debug:
Lauterbach TRACE32, GHS MULTI, LDRA, DOORS, JTAG/SWD, Git, Jenkins, Bazel (read)
Qualification:
MIL-STD-810 environmental, MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC, DO-160, IP-vault and classified workflows
Leadership:
Multi-program architecture, RFC processes, DOD audit cycles, exec-level briefings, hiring loops
Education
Texas A&M University B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering College Station, TX · Sep 2009 - May 2013
Work Experience
Lockheed Martin Staff Embedded Software Engineer Fort Worth, TX · Jan 2021 - Present
  • Tech lead on F-35 mission-systems firmware, owning 120+ software components, an 8-engineer team, and architecture decisions across 3 program lines.
  • Led the DO-178C DAL-A re-qualification for the mission-computer secure-comms module across 11 months, retiring 14 open audit findings and shipping 6 DAL-A work-products through DER review.
  • Architected the FIPS-140-3 module integration with HSM-backed key custody, adopted by 3 program lines and certified through an external lab in 9 months.
  • Drove the anti-tamper and chain-of-trust hardening across 4 line-replaceable units, integrating JTAG fuses, secure-boot signing, and supply-chain IP-vault controls per classified workflows.
  • Defined the org's Firmware Architecture Review Board, shepherding 16 RFCs through review and adoption across the 3 program lines.
  • Built the multi-program build and qualification pipeline in Jenkins + Bazel, automating MCDC coverage reporting and cutting nightly qualification runtime from 9h to 3h.
  • Mentored 8 engineers through senior and staff trajectory; led 10 internal architecture reviews and briefed program executives on safety, schedule, and supply-chain risk quarterly.
Raytheon Senior Embedded Software Engineer Tucson, AZ · Jul 2013 - Dec 2020
  • Owned firmware for the SM-3 guidance section: shipped 48 software components in C + Ada on a VxWorks DAL-B target, under formal DO-178C process.
  • Led the MIL-STD-1553 + ARINC-429 protocol stack rework, cutting end-to-end command latency by 38% and closing 6 long-standing requirement-trace gaps.
  • Built the HIL test rig for the guidance computer with NI VeriStand, automating 180 regression cases across the 4 mission profiles.
  • Drove MIL-STD-810 environmental qualification for 2 line-replaceable units, partnering with Hardware and Mission Assurance through 8 qualification campaigns.
  • Mentored 4 mid-level engineers, ran the bi-weekly firmware craft session, and served on 6 hiring loops as a senior interviewer.

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Yes. The defaults lean C + C++ on ARM Cortex-M with Zephyr RTOS because that is the most common 2026 embedded JD pattern, but every reference is a placeholder. Swap C for pure C only, or surface Rust as your primary if you ship Rust firmware. Swap STM32 for ESP32, AVR, NXP, or Renesas. Swap Zephyr for FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or VxWorks. Swap CMake for PlatformIO, Make, or Yocto. The side panel updates the resume across every mention.

Embedded Software Engineer leans toward firmware on resource-constrained hardware: microcontrollers, RTOS scheduling, peripheral drivers, bare-metal startup code, power and timing budgets, debugger and oscilloscope work, and standards like MISRA C or ISO 26262. The Back-End Engineer template leans toward server-side application code: APIs, databases, queues, throughput at scale. The DevOps Engineer template leans toward pipelines and cloud infrastructure. If your day is reading datasheets, debugging on a logic analyzer, and squeezing 8KB of flash, pick this one. If your day is shipping HTTP services or running Kubernetes clusters, the Back-End or DevOps templates fit.

No. Hiring managers screen on substance: the silicon you wrote against, the boards you brought up, the firmware you owned, the bugs you chased on a scope, the milliwatts and microseconds you fought for, the standards you certified to. Layout origin is not on the rubric. What does cost interviews is a template padded with vague embedded-speak, which this one is structured to prevent. The skeleton came from a former Google recruiter; the substance is yours.

Why trust this template

Emmanuel Gendre, former Google recruiter and tech resume writer

Emmanuel Gendre

Former Google recruiter · Tech resume writer

I built this Embedded Software Engineer template from the patterns I saw work, not from generic advice. Below is the data behind every bullet, skills line, and metric placeholder.

  • Experience 900+ Embedded Software Engineer resumes screened across consumer hardware, automotive, medical devices, and industrial IoT during my Google recruiter years and at TechieCV. The Profile Summary and Skills sections mirror what survived the 6-second screen.
  • Expertise Bullets modeled on senior offers. The Apple section is structured the way Senior and Staff Embedded Software Engineers write their experience when they land tier-one consumer-hardware interviews: firmware ownership across product generations, board bring-up alongside EE, RTOS architecture with hard jitter numbers, peripheral driver depth, power and memory budgets with measurable wins, and field debugging with cycle-time improvements.
  • Trust Stack reflects the 2026 hiring bar. C + C++ + Rust on ARM Cortex-M (STM32, ESP32) with Zephyr + FreeRTOS, BLE + Wi-Fi + LoRa, J-Link + GDB + OpenOCD, CMake + PlatformIO + Yocto, Unity + Ceedling + HIL, MISRA C + ISO 26262 + IEC 62304 is what hiring managers expect today; suggestion chips cover realistic alternatives (Nordic nRF52, NXP i.MX RT, ThreadX, VxWorks, ST-Link, Lauterbach, Make) so you can match your real toolchain without losing keyword fit.
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