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About the Role
As a Technical Lead at BrightAI, you will be responsible for driving architecture, leading engineering execution, and mentoring top-tier talent to deliver world-class hardware/software/AI platforms. Your technical expertise and leadership will shape the future of our products—with a focus on cutting-edge Embedded Linux systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of edge-based systems, from initial concept through production.
- Collaborate closely with the product team to drive technical development.
- Engage customers with an excellent demeanor, providing a pleasant working experience externally and internally.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across hardware, software, AI, and product teams to bring reliable, intelligent edge devices to market.
- Translate business/product requirements into technical requirements and adjust product requirements to align with best technical practices.
- Drive internal development and report technical status internally and externally.
- Guide the integration of embedded software with custom hardware, ensuring stable and scalable solutions.
- Drive the overall technical roadmap, ensuring alignment across software, firmware, hardware, and cloud integration.
- Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams and mentor engineers in embedded systems design and debugging.
- Create and enforce best practices for embedded development.
- Work closely with electrical and hardware engineers to ensure seamless hardware-software integration and platform bring-up.
- Stay hands-on with code and systems-level debugging, especially during early bring-up and troubleshooting phases.
- Lead and participate in architecture and code reviews, ensuring quality, maintainability, and performance.
- Establish and maintain documentation, development processes, and tools to support embedded platform stability and scalability.
- Contribute to hiring and team growth through mentoring, technical interviews, and strategic planning.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- 6+ years of experience developing embedded software.
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership role.
- Experience in Embedded Linux development, device driver development, and board bring-up.
- Command of C/C++.
- Working knowledge of Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
- Experience with Yocto Project, Buildroot, or other embedded Linux build systems.
- Understanding of embedded system constraints and optimization techniques for performance and memory.
- Proficiency with Linux debugging tools: GDB, strace, dmesg, perf, etc.
- Solid understanding of hardware interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, MIPI, USB, etc.
- Comfortable with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and collaborative development workflows.
- Familiarity with security best practices in embedded Linux environments (e.g., secure boot, trusted execution environments, encryption).
- Experience working with cross-functional teams across hardware, software, and systems engineering.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and team leadership skills.
Skills
- Embedded Linux development
- Device driver development
- Board bring-up
- C/C++
- Python
- Bash
- Scripting languages
- Yocto Project
- Buildroot
- Embedded Linux build systems
- Linux debugging tools (GDB, strace, dmesg, perf)
- Hardware interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, MIPI, USB)
- Git
- CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborative development workflows
- Embedded Linux security best practices
- Cross-functional team collaboration
- Communication
- Documentation
- Team leadership
- AI/ML integration on embedded Linux
- Real-time operating systems (RTOS)
- Hybrid RTOS/Linux environments
- Secure provisioning
- OTA updates for Linux-based devices
- Containerized workloads on embedded Linux (Docker, Balena)
- FPGA integration
- SoCs (Xilinx Zynq, NXP i.MX)
- Cloud connectivity for edge devices (AWS IoT, Azure IoT, MQTT)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- 6+ years of experience
- 2+ years in a leadership role
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
About the Company
- BrightAI is a high-growth company at the forefront of AI, IoT, Cloud, and Mobile technologies.
- We are dedicated to revolutionizing industries and transforming the way businesses operate.
- Our team is composed of the best and brightest minds, many of whom have played key roles in leading companies such as Microsoft, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings, and Samsung.
- We are seeking innovative individuals to join us on this exciting journey.