Founding Firmware Engineer

👋 Hi, I’m Nik. I’m looking for a world-class founding firmware engineer to build Omi with me.

• Omi https://omi.me is AI for your real life.
• Think: wearable memory, voice-first interface, the reverse iPhone.
• In the past 10 months, we’ve:
• Grown to 300K software users
• Hit 100M+ organic video views
• Built 3 working hardware devices

Now I’m ready to go deeper — and I need you.

ABOUT ME

• 26 y.o.
• 🇷🇺 Born on an island in the Pacific (Russia), now in SF
• 🧠 Thiel Fellow
• 💰 Sold 2 startups — scaled the last to $4M ARR, $3M raised, acquired by Toptal
• 💻 Built the first Omi prototypes (hardware, mobile)
• 💸 Raised $7M+ total
• 🧲 Managed teams across 3 continents
• 📈 Drove 100M+ organic impressions for Omi

Check me out at nikshevchenko.com http://nikshevchenko.com

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As the first firmware engineer, you’ll

• Own firmware for omi devices
• Hack other devices to integrate them with omi ecosystem (i.e. apple watch, meta glasses, etc...)
• Help shape product direction, technical stack, and even culture
• Work directly with me every day — we’ll build and launch together

This is not a “here’s what to do” job — this is “what should we do next?”

WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR

Someone who’s built and shipped something impressive. For example

• Wrote firmware for 1k+ devices
• Or Built a product used by 1M+ people
• Or built something with >$1M revenue
• Or raised >$1M as a founder / solo builder
• Or deeply technical + insanely fast — even if early in your journey

You don’t need to check every box — but one really strong signal is enough.

TECH STACK (SO FAR)

• Flutter (might move to React soon)
• Python / Flask
• Firmware: C, Nordic chips
• BLE

WHY THIS MIGHT BE THE ONE

• You’ll get lots of equity and full ownership over technical direction
• Work on actual AI hardware, not just apps
• Build something that people already love — and want more of
• Help people think and live better with ambient, embodied AI

• Let’s make humans 1000x smarter with AI by 2026.
• Let’s make robots help in every apartment by 2028.
• Let's create the metaverse
• II personally check every candidate!
• If I didn’t respond, something was off. 🥲