Role: Senior Embedded Engineer
Location: Carlsbad, CA USA and Richmond, BC Canada
Experience: 8+ Years
What You'll Be Doing:
- Experience developing firmware for consumer IoT or smart home products.
- Experience with industry protocols such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, and Matter.
- Knowledge of Linux memory management, file systems, and bootloaders such as U-Boot.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Lua.
- Experience supporting products through manufacturing and production.
- Design, develop, debug, and maintain embedded firmware for IoT and video streaming products.
- Own major firmware components and features throughout the product development lifecycle, from design to production.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, QA, and ODM partners to ensure successful system integration and product delivery.
- Develop and integrate device drivers, communication protocols, RTOS components, and platform firmware.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex firmware, hardware, and system-level issues.
- Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, power consumption, and system reliability.
- Review board schematics, component datasheets, and hardware documentation to support firmware development and debugging.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and root-cause analysis to improve software quality.
- Evaluate new SoCs, image sensors, wireless modules, and other hardware components for future product development.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous process improvements.
What We Are Looking For:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus, or equivalent industry experience.
- 7+ years of experience in embedded firmware development, preferably with IoT, networking, or video streaming products.
- Strong programming skills in Embedded C and C++.
- Experience developing software on RTOS and Embedded Linux platforms.
- Solid understanding of real-time multimedia applications, including video/audio processing, compression, and streaming technologies (H.264/H.265).
- Experience with multithreaded and multitasking embedded software development.
- Experience developing and debugging embedded device drivers.
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills in embedded systems.
- Experience optimizing embedded software for performance and resource utilization.
- Working knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RTP, RTSP, SIP and WebRTC.
- Experience with wireless communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, BLE, and LTE.
- Familiarity with IoT communication architectures and cloud-connected devices.
- Hands-on experience using hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
- Experience using source control systems such as Git.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
Education: Bachelor’s degree
Work Arrangement Fully Onsite: Must be able to travel to an Arrow Client office location as requested by Arrow Client leadership.
Location: Carlsbad, CA USA and Richmond, BC Canada
About eInfochips:
eInfochips, an Arrow company (Fortune#154), is a leading global provider of product engineering and semiconductor design services. A rich history of over two decades, with over 500+ products developed and 40M deployments in 140 countries, eInfochips continues to fuel technological innovations in multiple verticals. eInfochips has strategic technology partnerships with Qualcomm, NVIDIA, NXP, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Amazon, Microsoft and Google to name a few. Along with Arrow’s $38B in revenues, 22,000 employees, and 345 locations serving over 80 countries, eInfochips is primed to accelerate connected products innovation for 150,000+ global clients. eInfochips acts as a catalyst to Arrow’s Sensor-to-Sunset initiative and offers complete edge-to-cloud capabilities for its clients. Please visit www.einfochips.com for our portfolio of product engineering services across
various industries & verticals.
Arrow’s Sensor-to-Sunset initiative and offers complete edge-to-cloud capabilities for its clients. Please visit www.einfochips.com for our portfolio of product engineering services across various industries C verticals.
EEO Statement:Arrow is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Location:CA-BC-British Columbia, Canada (Arlo Technologies)Time Type:Full timeJob Category:Engineering ServicesSkills Required
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience (IoT, networking, or video streaming)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field (Master's a plus)
- Strong programming skills in Embedded C and C++
- Experience developing software on RTOS and Embedded Linux platforms
- Knowledge of Linux memory management, file systems, and bootloaders such as U-Boot
- Experience with industry IoT protocols: Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter
- Solid understanding of real-time multimedia applications, video/audio processing and H.264/H.265
- Experience with multithreaded and multitasking embedded software development
- Experience developing and debugging embedded device drivers
- Working knowledge of networking protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RTP, RTSP, SIP, WebRTC)
- Experience with wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, BLE, LTE)
- Experience supporting products through manufacturing and production
- Hands-on experience with hardware debugging tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers)
- Experience using source control systems such as Git
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Lua
- Master's degree in related field
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Affordable Benefits — Medical coverage includes multiple options with income-tiered employer contributions that substantially reduce costs for lower-wage employees (the base plan was heavily subsidized for earners under $55,000). These affordability measures, alongside EAP and telemedicine, help the overall package offset middling base pay in some roles.
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Parental & Family Support — New parents receive fully paid leave (six weeks at 100% pay in prior materials, with more recent reporting of up to 12 weeks fully paid for the delivering parent in the U.S.). Backup dependent care and related family supports are also provided.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Many salaried roles have unlimited PTO, while hourly staff receive competitive accrual-based PTO, with added flexibility from floating holidays and observance of MLK Day. These options indicate a broad time-off framework across employee groups.
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