Bird is a last-mile electric vehicle sharing company dedicated to bringing safe, low-cost, environmentally-friendly transportation solutions to communities across the world. We provide a fleet of electric, shared scooters that can be accessed via smartphone. Bird is headquartered in Venice, California and is rapidly expanding across the country and the world.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the firmware development of various vehicle components included Power Control Module, Motor Controller, and Battery Management Systems.
• Work with electrical/electronics engineers, to develop these systems.
• Aid in the development, validation and enhancements of various power electronic products for electric vehicles.
• Develop firmware installation and QC processes for new products.
• Tune motor behavior and BMS strategies and verify operational efficiencies.

What You'll Need:

• Experience developing firmware for motor controllers, battery management systems or similar.
• Strong experience and proficiency in embedded languages, particularly with C.
• Experience with firmware development, testing, and debugging.
• Experience with CANbus, UART, I2C, and SPI communications.
• Experience in motor controls development, particularly Brushless DC motors.
• Solid understanding of electromechanical systems
• Experience in power electronics development and manufacturing.
• Knowledge of mechanical systems and components.
• Knowledge of PCB design, using schematic capture and layout tools. Altium preferred.
• Knowledge of version control tools (GIT, SVN, or the like)

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with motor commutation and tuning strategies.
• Experience with Firmware Over The Air (FOTA)process
• Experience developing bootloaders and programming over CAN
• Experience with ST micro-controllers

Bird Rides Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer, and we welcome everyone regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or genetics. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.