At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
Rite-Hite is a global leader in industrial safety and efficiency solutions. As part of the company’s digital transformation journey, we are seeking an Architect, Embedded Software to define and guide the embedded software architecture that underpins connected, intelligent, secure, and safety-critical products.
The Architect, Embedded Software is responsible for establishing scalable, reliable, and secure embedded software platforms that support control systems, sensors, and connected devices across the product portfolio. This role ensures embedded software is aligned with enterprise product and digital strategies while supporting long-term extensibility and maintainability.
The architect partners closely with product management, electrical and mechanical engineering, hardware architecture, edge and cloud software teams, and quality organizations to translate strategic requirements into robust embedded software foundations.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Embedded Software Architecture Strategy
Define and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and standards for embedded software across control products and connected devices.
Establish common approaches for real-time operating systems, middleware, drivers, communication stacks, and application frameworks.
Ensure embedded software architectures support scalability, reliability, safety, security, and updateability.
Platform Enablement and Product Support
Partner with product management and engineering teams to enable new and evolving product capabilities through reusable embedded software platforms.
Guide architectural decisions related to performance, resource constraints, portability, and hardware abstraction.
Promote reuse and consistency of embedded software components across products and platforms.
Safety, Security, and Lifecycle Management
Define embedded software standards aligned with functional safety, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements.
Ensure architectures support secure boot, authentication, update mechanisms, and long-term maintainability.
Participate in design and architecture reviews to assess risk, safety, and compliance readiness.
Integration with Broader Systems
Collaborate with hardware, edge, AI/ML, vision, and cloud teams to ensure embedded software integrates seamlessly into broader system architectures.
Support hybrid deployment models where embedded software interacts with edge platforms, mobile applications, and cloud services.
Ensure clear interfaces and responsibilities across system layers.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
Collaborate across product management, embedded development teams, hardware engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service organizations.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to embedded software teams.
Influence architectural decisions through expertise, data, and collaboration rather than direct authority.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This role does not have direct reports but is expected to provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple teams.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field required; Master’s degree preferred.
8+ years of experience developing embedded software for industrial, connected, or safety-critical systems.
Demonstrated experience in embedded software architecture or senior technical leadership roles.
Knowledge / Skill Requirements:
Strong understanding of embedded software architectures, real-time systems, and low-level software design.
Experience with RTOS, communication protocols, and hardware abstraction layers.
Familiarity with functional safety, cybersecurity, and certification considerations for embedded systems.
Ability to balance performance, resource constraints, and long-term scalability.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Leadership & Collaboration:
Platform-oriented technical leader with strong systems-thinking skills.
Comfortable partnering across software, hardware, product management, and quality organizations.
Data-driven decision maker who balances innovation with reliability and maintainability.
Why Join Rite-Hite Digital Solutions?
As Architect, Embedded Software, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the embedded foundations of Rite-Hite’s next generation of connected and intelligent products. Your work will directly influence product reliability, scalability, safety, and the ability to deliver differentiated digital and automation capabilities across a global portfolio.
What We Offer
At Rite-Hite, we take care of our people – because when you’re supported, you can do your best work. Our benefits are designed to support your health, your future and your life outside of work:
Health & Well-being: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life and disability insurance. A robust well-being program with an opportunity to receive an extra day off and more.
Financial Security: A strong retirement savings program with 401(k), company match, and profit sharing.
Time for You: Paid holidays, vacation time, and personal/sick days each year.
Join us and build a career where you’re supported – at work and beyond.
Rite-Hite is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. In accordance with VEVRAA, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for protected veterans. We are also committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace for the safety of our employees and customers.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Master's degree
- 8+ years developing embedded software for industrial, connected, or safety-critical systems
- Demonstrated experience in embedded software architecture or senior technical leadership
- Strong understanding of embedded software architectures, real-time systems, and low-level software design
- Experience with RTOS
- Experience with communication protocols and communication stacks
- Experience with hardware abstraction layers and driver development
- Familiarity with functional safety, cybersecurity, and certification considerations for embedded systems
- Experience with secure boot, authentication, and firmware update mechanisms
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders
- Platform-oriented systems thinking and data-driven decision making
Rite-Hite Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Rite-Hite and has not been reviewed or approved by Rite-Hite.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are repeatedly highlighted as strong, combining a 401(k) with company match and an additional profit‑sharing component with broad investment choices. Feedback suggests profit sharing can be meaningful in good years, enhancing long‑term financial security.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as competitive, with multiple plan options, HSAs with company contributions, and FSAs. Company‑paid short‑term disability (100% income replacement up to six months), long‑term disability, life insurance at 2x salary, and AD&D strengthen overall protection.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes up to four weeks of vacation, nine paid holidays, personal days for eligible roles, and paid parental leave. A medical leave program providing 100% income replacement for up to six months stands out as especially generous.
Rite-Hite Insights
What We Do
Rite-Hite, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA is a world-wide leader in the development, manufacture, and sale of loading dock safety systems, industrial door solutions and in-plant products. All of our products are designed for maximum safety, productivity, efficiency and reduced energy costs at your facility. Rite-Hite's complete product line includes hydraulic, mechanical and air-powered dock levelers, vehicle restraints, light communication systems, truck levelers, dock seals and shelters, high speed doors, cooler/freezer doors, traffic/impact doors, machine safety doors, safety barrier systems, industrial HVLS ceiling fans and a complete line of aftermarket parts, accessories, and service. Rite-Hite is focused on providing solutions for you. From developing the Dok-Lok in 1980 to prevent premature trailer separation to the innovative Rite-Vu Light Communications system introduced in 2009 to protect pedestrians and forklift drivers, we're innovative to make you safer, more efficient and productive. Careers If you would like to explore career opportunities with Rite-Hite, please apply online at www.ritehite.com
