Lead Engineer - Hardware Platform

Responsibilities

• Own a system end-to-end: define and deliver the technical roadmap for a multi-phase area, refining as it evolves and resolving cross-group dependencies
• Preemptively identify and resolve technical risks; drive urgency and own resolution during incidents within your domain
• Build tooling, libraries, and runbooks to reduce operational pain and tech debt
• Set quality standards through code reviews, design reviews, and mentorship
• Roll out major features with monitoring, telemetry, and failure domains understood upfront
• Iterate on team workflows and processes to drive better outcomes

Requirements

• Autonomous systems ownership: owned a production technical system end-to-end, set its direction, delivered against a multi-month roadmap, and made independent calls under open-ended requirements
• Distributed systems depth: understand why systems break at scale, state, consistency, failure modes, and unreliable networks
• Hardware or IoT experience: built software that talks to physical devices (cameras, sensors, embedded systems)
• Operational ownership: led production incident response; own reliability including monitoring, runbooks, and toil reduction
• Set quality bar through reviews, mentor engineers, and drive cross-group initiatives
• AI-augmented development experience with tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot, with judgment to evaluate output quality
• Experience being a change agent: understand current state and continuously improve systems and processes

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in AWS IoT Core, device communication, or fleet monitoring at scale
• Experience with video pipeline tools (GStreamer, HLS, WebRTC, or similar)
• Familiarity with .NET Core, Python, MongoDB/DocDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ
• Field hardware support experience (firmware updates, remote diagnostics, connectivity triage)

Benefits

• Flexible vacation time, company-wide holidays, timeout (meeting-free) days, remote work options
• Open, honest culture with autonomy and agency to try new ideas
• Professional development resources and opportunities
• Tech stack and hardware provided
• Employee Assistance Program, employee resource groups, fitness partner Peerfit
• Multiple medical insurance plans including vision, dental, fertility healthcare, family forming benefits
• 401(K) match up to 4%