<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> In every organization where I have ever worked over the last forty-five years, the embedded firmware engineers have been the lowest paid people whose jobs are the least secure. Embedded development is about surviving long enough to see the thing pass its acceptance test, then getting laid off.</p>