# Lead Engineer - Hardware Platform

**Company:** [Hudl](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hudl)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $132k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Iot, Hardware Integration, Aws Iot Core, Gstreamer, Hls, Webrtc, .Net Core, Python, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Lead Engineer to autonomously own a core camera platform system covering automatic capture, device connectivity, video pipelines, and fleet management. Set technical direction, deliver on a 6-12 month roadmap, and serve as the key technical anchor for the squad.

## Job Description

## 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%

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