About the Team
Come help us build a next generation Smart TV experience. We are a new team of industry veterans developing Vizio's OS using both off-the-shelf components and greenfield development. If you are excited to have an impact on a platform that is still maturing, we want you to work with us.
VIZIO is seeking a Staff, OS, Embedded Development Engineer, for SmartCast TV and Sound Bar Technology. We are seeking engineers who care about the people they work with, the work they create, and the teams they nurture. At VIZIO we're built around supporting each other in a collaborative environment. We're focused on learning, doing something new and valuable, and encouraging our team to do the same. With flexible thought process, a collaborative open-door environment, and teams who support each other in and out of the office, our work experience becomes meaningful. And we don't focus on hierarchy; we work together to create the roles we're most excited about. Now we need a brilliant Embedded Development Engineer to join us and own the development of our application features through the full software development lifecycle.
What You Will Do

• Be involved with every stage of the software development process
• Help architect new OS services using both existing open-source components and greenfield development.
• Design APIs/SDKs used by other teams, both internal and external to the company.
• Drive the execution and delivery of features by collaborating with many cross functional teams, architects, product owners and engineer.
• Lead, create, coach, and mentor a software engineering team, through product discovery that helps identify and break our product goals into technical projects.
• Empower the engineers and dev leads in your teams to succeed by identifying how to measure success, and mentor them on how to achieve those goals.
• Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of the product.
• Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.
• Participate in architecture discussions and planning.
• Participate in cross-functional coordination, planning, and reviews with leads from other engineering teams.
• Empower the delivery team to self-organize.
• Be a multiplier and have a passion for team and team members' success.
• Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members.
• Maintain high morale and motivate the delivery team to go above and beyond.
• Vocally advocate for technical excellence and helping the teams make good decisions.
• Maintain and foster our culture by interviewing and hiring the most qualified individuals.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp.

About You

• Bachelor's Degree or greater in Computer Science, Electronics & Communications, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 4-6 years of experience in architecture, design, prototyping, software development, code review and unit testing for embedded devices.
• High proficiency with modern C, C++, C++11/C++14 or C++17 preferred.
• Very good experience in object-oriented programming and design skills, JavaScript, HTML5, Linux OS, Make file, Python, Other development/build tools and scripting languages.
• Extensive experience with POSIX-based embedded systems, one or more of Android, Linux, QNX.
• Solid foundational knowledge of inter-process communications (IPC) and remote procedure calls (RPC). Proficiency with multiple communications paradigms: client-server, peer-to-peer, and publish/subscribe.
• Extensive experience with IP-based communications and protocols, for example: HTTP, TLS, REST, Websockets, JSON, XML, Protobufs, Flatbuffers, RTP, RTSP, HLS.
• Experience working with diverse engineering teams.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, highly collaborative environment.
• You are excited to have an impact on a platform that is used by millions.
• You respect the institutional knowledge stored in legacy code but aren't afraid to replace it when needed.
• You know when to use an existing solution and when to build something new.
• You are able to gather and define your own requirements.
• You have patience when working with people of all skill levels.
• You build up those around you.
• Your ego isn't tied to your technical decisions.
• You pay attention to the edge cases, evaluating how a design might break.
• You are proactive in foreseeing issues and resolve it before it happens.
• Experience working with modern build systems.

About VIZIO
We are Beautifully Simple.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, VIZIO is a leading HDTV brand in America and the #1 Sound Bar Brand in America. VIZIO's mission is to deliver high performance, smarter products with the latest innovations at a significant savings that we can pass along to our consumers. Our loyal following and industry-wide praise continues to grow as we redefine what it means to be smart.
VIZIO, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We will not pay fees to any third-party agency, outside recruiter or firm without a mutually agreed-upon contract and will not be responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes will be considered our property and will be processed accordingly.