Sr Embedded Software Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architectural design process and executional plans, considering scalability, performance, reliability, security, cost and maintainability requirements for a segment-wide IoT platform.
• Work closely with peers to define new platforms and leverage existing technology where possible to ensure compatibility with product portfolios and future needs.
• Collaborate with team members, including product managers, engineers, and designers, to cascade architectural goals, requirements, and user needs.
• Drive the decision-making process by conducting architectural reviews, providing technical mentorship, and presenting recommendations to the development team and management.
• Promote a clear vision, staying up to date with industry advancements and advancing innovation within the organization.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and industry trends, and incorporate them into the platform architecture.
• Work across the organization to ensure alignment and integration with complimentary systems and technologies.
• Mentor and coach engineers on standard processes, design patterns, and software development methodologies.
• Identify future risks, act as the technical point of escalation when development efforts are no longer on-track for delivery, and lead mitigation efforts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Ideally 10+ years experience in embedded software development, with a focus on architecting sophisticated systems and platforms.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing firmware architectures for embedded systems.
• Strong expertise in embedded programming languages, familiarity with real-time operating systems (RTOS), and deep understanding of communication protocols such as SNMP, MQTT, and HTTP.
• Strong experience with security principles and practices, including secure boot, authentication, encryption, and secure firmware updates.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence and encourage technical teams and represent the product platform with multi-functional partner teams or leadership.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Availability to work in overlapping time zones with the distributed team.
• Ability to travel on a regular basis including internationally on occasion.

Nice to Have

• Experience with IoT platform development and deployment.
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices in embedded system security.
• Experience working in global, cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Educational background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.

Benefits & Perks

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
• Other supplemental benefits such as tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and legal & identity theft protection.