Role: Software Engineering Lead, Firmware/OS
Location: San Jose
DescriptionAs a Software Engineering Lead, Firmware/OS, you'll work with a team of committed engineers to build the foundation of our device platform - from the OS layer to secure containers and lightweight services. You will own the core pieces of Android and Linux systems that scale across resource-constrained, multi-node environments.
Responsibilities- Design, implement, and maintain system-level platform code across Android and Linux, including AOSP customizations, system services, init processes, and kernel modules.
- Architect scalable, extensible, secure, and robust systems. Lead a team to execute on those designs as requirements evolve.
- Develop and maintain Linux-based services for inter-device communications, message queuing, and observability pipelines.
- Interface with hardware teams to maintain drivers and integrate custom hardware and peripherals.
- Build and manage immutable system images, secure and reproducible environments, including certificate signing, sandboxing, and runtime hardening.
- Define, implement, and enforce system policy, network configurations, authentication, and enterprise integrations for Android and Linux-based devices.
- Align coding and deployment practices with regulatory and high-assurance frameworks.
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines (software, electrical, mechanical) to inform constraints and requirements.
- Ship pragmatic, secure, and well-documented systems that scale.
Requirements- 5+ years of experience building and maintaining Android and/or Linux system-level code and framework extensions (AOSP, custom ROMs, HALs, device drivers, kernel configuration) in an enterprise environment.
- Strong software architecture fundamentals with the ability to design systems that are secure, scalable, extensible, and robust.
- Experience with networking fundamentals and low-latency communication protocols, both IPC and RPC (e.g., gRPC, protobuf, AIDL, libzmq).
- Experience integrating custom hardware and peripherals into Android and Linux environments.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for system image generation, AOSP builds, and firmware packaging.
- Familiarity with automated testing strategies for embedded and system-level software, including hardware-in-the-loop and integration testing.
- Experience with OTA update infrastructure, including image delivery, staged rollouts, and rollback mechanisms.
- Familiarity with secure boot, TPM, certificate chains, system integrity verification, and other low-level security primitives.
- A security-first mindset with practical experience hardening real-world systems.
- Experience working on devices and systems with resource constraints (thermal, power, compute).
- Effective communication and collaboration across engineering disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with defense-related security frameworks and protocols (ITAR, security classifications, STIG, encryption).
- Distributed systems experience, including service discovery, health monitoring, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation across multi-node systems.
Compensation may vary within the posted range based on relevant experience, skills, education, and other job-related factors. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity and other forms of compensation. Eligible employees also receive a competitive benefits package, including unlimited PTO.
