Embedded / Firmware Engineer

Ship production firmware against ARM Cortex-M.

C and Rust on bare metal, RTOS fundamentals, MISRA-C:2023 compliant style, driver development for the four canonical buses, and a real-time capstone application. Code-first throughout — Phase E is DURA's flagship code-teaching discipline phase.

What you'll be able to do

Build production firmware against an ARM Cortex-M target with documented register access, RTOS scheduling, DMA-driven peripherals, and a real-time sensor pipeline that compiles, flashes, and runs.

Career-track destination

Embedded / Firmware Engineer →

Junior / mid / senior skill matrix, salary range, market demand.

Spine sequence

6 phases · ~985 hours

Phase 0: Digital Literacy
~50h
Digital-literacy foundations.
Phase 1: Programming Fundamentals
~225h
Programming fundamentals.
Phase 3: CS Fundamentals
~225h
CS fundamentals.
Phase 5: Systems Engineering
~350h
Systems engineering — OS internals + networking.
Phase 7: Advanced Systems
~120h
Rust fundamentals + performance engineering — directly applicable to embedded.
Modules: 7-3, 7-4
Phase E: Embedded / Firmware
~15h
Phase E — Embedded / Firmware. Eight code-first lessons on ARM Cortex-M.

A note on status: Some phases on this path are standards-literacy focused rather than code-teaching focused. The path is runnable today and adds real value, but hands-on lesson modules will deepen over time.

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Embedded path

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