Jonathan Lee
Lead Firmware Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Lee is a Lead Firmware Engineer with 12 years of experience designing embedded systems, firmware, and software/hardware co-design for automotive and consumer products. He has progressed from silicon verification and bare-metal work at Microsoft to embedded software roles at Google/Nest, Rivian, and SPAN, and now leads firmware efforts at Ford. His background blends low-level diagnostics, systems validation, and device software delivery, enabling reliable productization across hardware-constrained environments. Based in Oakland, he brings a track record of shipping complex, safety-conscious firmware for vehicle and energy domains. Notably, his career bridges both pre- and post-silicon verification and long-term production firmware, giving him uncommon end-to-end insight from silicon to deployed systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BASc Computer Engineering, BASc Computer Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaStanford SCPD
Github Skills (5)
microcontroller4
testing3
orangepi2
linux-kernel2
raspberry-pi2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JL2010/stm32_entropy
Mar 2014 - Jul 2022
A clock-jitter based random number generation using an STM32F100C8 microcontroller and its internal clock sources.
Contributions:1 review, 4 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 5 months
microcontroller
JL2010/zephyr
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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