Firmware Engineering Lead

Tive

$120K — $150K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong technical leadership in managing concurrent firmware projects.
  • Expertise in hiring, developing, and managing a tech-savvy team.
  • Proficient in bare metal and RTOS programming using C/C++.
  • Advanced debugging capabilities, particularly with cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience creating efficient firmware for battery-sensitive IoT applications.
  • Knowledge of various radio technologies including WiFi, Cellular, and BLE.
  • Familiar with communication protocols like I2C, UART, TCP/IP, and MQTT.
  • Experience with CI/CD practices in firmware development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small team to execute a cutting-edge hardware roadmap.
  • Develop and write firmware for new innovative projects.
  • Maintain and enhance existing firmware to ensure optimal performance.
  • Drive continuous improvement efforts in firmware quality and development processes.
  • Support compliance and validation according to company and ISO standards.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to make a significant impact in your career at Tive.
  • Autonomy and resources to innovate and build effectively.
  • Collaborative environment with a supportive global team.
  • Flexible working options: office-based or hybrid.
  • Competitive equity to foster ownership in the company's success.
Full Job Description
As the Firmware Lead at Tive you will be responsible for two main items. First, 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. Second, you will be responsible for personally contributing to the development of the roadmap. While it won't be a constant, the expected steady-state split of responsibilities is about 25% managerial and 75% development.

Our ideal candidate must have:

  • 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


Preferred Experience:

  • 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


Other Requirements:

  • BS/MS Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 8+ years experience as a Firmware Engineer
  • Several years of experience as a Firmware Technical Lead


What you'll be doing:

  • You will be leading a small team in the development of an aggressive hardware roadmap
  • You will be building firmware for new projects
  • You will be maintaining and improving our firmware over time
  • Drive continuous improvement in firmware quality, reliability, and development processes
  • Support compliance, validation, and release activities in line with company and ISO procedures


What does Tive offer?

  • A chance to join what may very well turn out to be the most important company in your career.
  • The autonomy and resources to build what you know how to build.
  • Work with a committed global team that have each others back.
  • Office-based or hybrid options. Your choice.
  • Competitive equity to ensure all of our employees have a sense of ownership in the long-term success of Tive's growth.

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