Job brief: Senior Embedded Software Engineer

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• Listed on Formlabs's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (4 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens careers.formlabs.com, the address Formlabs's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $130,000 to $250,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Boston, MA · Somerville, Massachusetts
• Posted: 2026-01-16 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• 401K matching with no vesting or tenure requirement

Conditions

• One-of-a-kind activities and events like monthly socials, the annual weekend summer camp, a can’t-miss company hackathon, and lots of other social opportunities

Main duties

• Build once, run everywhere.** Extend the Formlabs architecture with a "printer abstraction layer", so that one codebase drives several printer families. When…
• Own the whole path.** Write kernel modules for sensors that have no driver. Write 1-Wire and RFID drivers for consumables. Build the Qt 6 / QML touch UI and …
• Ship to both ends.** Bring up prototype machines that don't have names yet, and push features to the tens of thousands of printers already in the field, ofte…
• You'll write mostly C++ and Python, plus some Go and TypeScript.
• You won't wait for board delivery to test your work. An MCU simulator and UI automation let you run much of the stack on your laptop, inside a dev container …

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for software engineer jobs in Boston, MA: $186k a year (85 listings, 10 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Formlabs's 183 open listings, 26% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Formlabs hires

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