Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer
BREAKFAST Studio · Kinetic Art
senior
Salary Range (USD)
$140k - $200k
Location
Brooklyn Navy Yard, USA
Visa Support
Not mentioned
Funding Stage
Unknown
Job Responsibilities
- • Own the electronics end‑to‑end
- • Create KiCad schematics, layouts, and revisions
- • Tune stepper and BLDC drives
- • Design RS‑485/Ethernet bus architecture
- • Develop embedded C firmware
- • Build production test fixtures
- • Conduct field‑failure analysis
Required Skills
10+ years shipping electronics you personally ownedReal motor control experiencePower, EMI, and thermal design expertisePrototype to mass production transitionKiCad for schematic and layoutEmbedded C programmingRS‑485 and Ethernet bus designStepper and BLDC drive tuning
Engineering Culture & Tech Stack
KiCadEmbedded CRS-485EthernetStepperBLDC
ownership
end‑to‑end responsibility
field‑failure analysis
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BREAKFAST Studio (kinetic art) | Senior Technical Program Manager · Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer | Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | https://theartistbreakfast.com
We're the studio behind the artist BREAKFAST. We design and build his robotic sculptures for the Venice Biennale, Rockefeller Center, the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, Tiffany & Co. in New York, Dubai and Seoul, and private collections around the world. The largest is the world's largest kinetic sculpture: 53 feet wide, nearly 3,000 motorized tiles driven by live wind and tide data, aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. No screens, no projectors. Each piece is hundreds to thousands of motors on an RS-485 bus under a Linux host, built to run for a decade with nobody watching it, and every board, line of firmware and bracket is designed and built by 17 people in our Brooklyn studio. See them move: https://theartistbreakfast.com/works
Senior Technical Program Manager: the artist's person on the ground with a six-person senior design and engineering team. You own every schedule in Asana, pressure-test estimates, run the weekly rhythm, flag slips the day you know, and deal with clients through install. Hardware+software TPM or producer background (robotics, consumer hardware, instruments), 8–12 years, fluent across at least two of mech/EE/firmware/software/ID. $150–200k base + profit share.
Senior Electrical & Firmware Engineer: own the electronics end to end. KiCad schematic→layout→revision, stepper/BLDC drive tuning, RS-485/Ethernet bus architecture, embedded C, production test fixtures, field-failure analysis. 10+ years shipping electronics you personally owned; real motor control; power/EMI/thermal; prototype→CM. $140–200k base + profit share.
No art background needed. We care whether you're sharp, can own a thing alone, and write plainly.
Apply at https://theartistbreakfast.com/jobs and mention HN. The "what makes you right for this" box is the part we read.
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