Firmware Engineering Lead

Tive•Boston, MA

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Firmware Lead at Tive, you will be responsible for building, leading, challenging, and coordinating the work breakdown of a small, but powerful and continually improving global firmware team as they work on developing the Tive roadmap. You will also be responsible for personally contributing to the development of the roadmap. The expected steady-state split of responsibilities is about 25% managerial and 75% development.

Requirements

Technical leadership of several concurrent firmware development projects
Hiring and performance management - knowing how to build a great technical team
Proficiency with bare metal and RTOS programming in C and C++
Strong debugging skills including the use of cloud infrastructure and instrumentation to monitor system performance and crash logs remotely
Experience building highly efficient firmware for battery sensitive applications/IOT
Experience in radio technologies such as WiFi, Cellular, BLE
Experience with I2C, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, SPI, MQTT
Experience with COTS sensors
Experience utilizing CI/CD within firmware projects building and testing with unit tests, integration and system tests
Experience developing manufacturing tests
Experience validating and integrating third party firmware from vendors and consultants
Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
BS/MS Electrical or Computer Engineering
8+ years experience as a Firmware Engineer
Several years of experience as a Firmware Technical Lead

Nice To Haves

Experience leading technical teams
Experience working with Customer Success to troubleshoot and correct customer issues
Experience using protocol buffers to serialize and deserialize data used in communication with external systems
Experience with reviewing PCB layouts and design best practices
Experience working with Asia Design/MFG partners

Responsibilities

Leading a small team in the development of an aggressive hardware roadmap
Building firmware for new projects
Maintaining and improving our firmware over time
Driving continuous improvement in firmware quality, reliability, and development processes
Supporting compliance, validation, and release activities in line with company and ISO procedures