Pr Software Architect

About the position

The Product Development team is looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Principal Software Architect to build the next generation of connected smart home products. You will be a technical go-to person for a collaborative engineering team to architect and continuously improve our connected products from concept ideation to development to mass production. The nature of the position requires the candidate to have excellent communication skills, strong technical and debugging skills, along with a drive to make a difference.

Responsibilities

• Drive definition and architecture of features that involve interaction between Device, App and Cloud.
• Design features considering tradeoffs between development costs, hardware (BOM) cost, recurring operating costs (e.g. cloud costs), technical debt across all domains (cloud/app/device firmware), user experience, and business priorities, including delivery timelines.
• Design for tolerance of and recovery from failures, for example: Individual Message Loss, Connection Loss, Messages with abnormal delays, Temporary service outages, Customer human error, Interrupted procedures, Unexpected power outage.
• Gather and understand feature requirements from product owner and other stakeholders.
• Gather and understand design constraints from engineering domains (Device, App, Cloud).
• Assist stakeholders in understanding the trade-offs involved in possible design options, so informed and intentional decisions can be made.
• Work with stakeholders and technical domain representatives to select designs with the appropriate trade-offs between cost, complexity, and capabilities that are consistent with the business objectives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software design and development experience.
• Track record of designing, developing, and shipping high-volume consumer electronics products.
• Experience implementing device or cloud IoT connectivity and networking solutions.
• Experience designing and implementing device to cloud and cloud to device message specs.
• Track record of working on projects that include both device firmware development and cloud IoT development teams.
• Skilled in designing IoT device and IoT cloud message flows.
• Experience leading design review sessions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring alignment across various projects and stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

• Hands on experience designing, developing, and operating a large scale IoT platform.
• 5+ years embedded software development experience with commercial SoC products for high-volume, high-quality consumer electronics products.
• Proven track record of identifying, managing, and mitigating major technical risks and dependencies across the project lifecycle.
• Skilled at providing feedback to enforce best practices in coding and design.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, providing expertise during critical production incidents, and supporting efforts to maintain system availability.
• Experience maintaining and updating architectural diagrams, design documents, and technical guidelines for the As-Is and To-Be platform and system architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with program management to align technical strategies with project goals, providing input on technical aspects of planning and execution.
• Willingness and ability to participate in device/platform debugging sessions.