Lead Embedded Engineer

About the Role

As an Embedded Linux Engineering Lead, you will own the development and maintenance of the firmware and hardware for our flagship product line. We are looking for a motivated self-starter with a background in IoT technologies that communicate securely over the public internet. You will be delivering real, immediately impactful products and will be leading a small team in charge of our access control panels, peripheral hardware and associated integrations. The ideal candidate will have a strong embedded C coding background and familiarity with IoT board hardware design. Previous experience with security systems would be an advantage for this position.

This is a technical position that involves people management. 50-75% of the time will be spent on technical work, the rest on team management.

Brivo is a fast-growing company that builds security products with a real, meaningful purpose. We take pride in our engineering culture and strive to continuously improve how we collaborate, build and learn.

You will also be expected to:

• Full cycle software development of embedded applications already deployed and those under development.
• Technical ownership of hardware development lifecycle including requirements definition, design, verification, board bring up, certification support and firmware/hardware integration.
• Technical liaison between in-house engineering teams and vendors / contract manufacturers.
• Take pride in and own your code and hardware design.
• Manage/debug a large network of distributed devices.
• Lead and manage an Engineering team.

About You

• 5-7 years of relevant experience
• BS in Computer Science, EE, or related Field.
• Ability to lead both technically and with people skills.
• Proficient in Embedded C/C++ firmware development.
• Comfortable with developing secure, encrypted communication over the public internet (TLS).
• Ability to design analog and digital system electronics including component selection, multi-layer PCBs, battery charging circuits.
• Familiar with RF circuitry and impedance matching networks.
• Experience working with vendors, manufacturing, diagnostic, firmware, ASIC, and HW etc.
• Extensive experience with OrCAD or other schematic capture and layout tools.
• Experience in ARM development.
• Experience in integrating RF protocols (Zwave preferred, Zigbee, BLE, WIFI).
• Experience with IOT networking and seamless failover (Ethernet, WIFI, Cellular).
• Bare metal experience including bootloader implementations (GRUB, UBOOT, etc).
• Experience with linux (eg kernel customization, network management, peripheral devices, make files, etc).