connected devices, with a proven history of delivering innovative, scalable firmware platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term embedded firmware architecture across multiple product families.
• Lead the design and development of scalable, reusable firmware platforms for next-generation IoT and video streaming devices.
• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives spanning firmware, hardware, cloud services, mobile applications, manufacturing, and external ODM partners.
• Lead evaluation, selection, and adoption of new SoCs, chipsets, wireless technologies, image sensors, operating systems, and software frameworks.
• Architect high-performance real-time software for multimedia, networking, security, and power-efficient embedded systems.
• Establish engineering best practices for software architecture, coding standards, design reviews, testing, CI/CD, and release quality.
• Lead investigation and resolution of the organization's most challenging firmware and system-level issues.
• Drive firmware optimization for performance, memory footprint, power consumption, boot time, reliability, and scalability.
• Influence product architecture decisions from concept through production and long-term platform evolution.
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to evaluate technical tradeoffs, technology investments, and development priorities.
• Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level firmware engineers through technical guidance, architecture reviews, and career development.
• Represent firmware engineering in executive technical reviews and strategic planning discussions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred, or equivalent industry experience.
• 15+ years of embedded firmware development experience, including extensive experience with connected IoT devices and video streaming products.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple product generations or embedded software platforms.
• Expert-level programming skills in Embedded C and modern C++.
• Deep expertise in RTOS, Embedded Linux, and real-time system architecture.
• Extensive experience designing complex multimedia systems involving video, audio, image processing, and streaming technologies (H.264/H.265).
• Deep understanding of embedded networking architectures and protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, SIP, WebRTC, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, and secure communication.
• Expert knowledge of device driver architecture, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), bootloaders, board support packages (BSP), and system bring-up.
• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM processors, memory systems, DMA, interrupts, cache management, and power management.
• Proven success optimizing embedded software for performance, memory utilization, boot time, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.
• Extensive experience debugging complex hardware/software interactions using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.
• Extensive experience developing consumer IoT, smart home, security camera, or edge AI products.
• Strong experience with Git-based development workflows, automated testing, and continuous integration.
• Exceptional communication and technical leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to influence engineering decisions across organizations.
• Proven track record of mentoring senior engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Matter, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE Mesh, and other modern IoT ecosystems.
• Expertise in Linux kernel development, memory management, file systems, and system security.
• Experience with secure boot, Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), firmware-over-the-air (OTA) updates, TPMs, and hardware security features.
• Experience optimizing bootloaders such as U-Boot and platform startup sequences.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation using Python, Lua, or similar languages.
• Experience leading firmware platform development across multiple product lines.
• Experience collaborating with global engineering teams and ODM partners.
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