Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

The Arlo firmware team has an immediate opening for a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer. You are expected to be an expert in streaming video in a challenging channel environment. In this role, you will be part of a team that implements everything from RTOS to device drivers and applications, communications protocols, test features in Arlo’s Video and Internet of Things devices. You must thrive in a fast-paced environment. Your contributions will make a pronounced difference to future embedded products.

Required skills:

• Engineering experience, at least 5 years

• Effective communication

• Experience hiring engineers

• Embedded C and C++

• Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) (Linux mandatory, Desirable, FreeRTOS, Threadx)

• Hard real time application experience: eg Video, Audio, Signal Processing, Audio/Video codec experience a plus

• Device driver design and implementation

• Optimizing embedded software for size and speed

• Optimizing boot loaders, eg uboot.

• Debugging and testing embedded systems

• Multitasking/multithreaded programming

• Streaming both Video and Audio in both Linux and RTOS.

• Networking Protocols: TCP/FTP/UDP/RTP/RTSP/RTCP/HTTPS/MQTT, Desirable: WebRTC, SIP, Thread, Matter

• Wireless communication protocols: WiFi, BLE, NFC, LTE

• Basic electronics test equipment (oscilloscopes, function generators, logic analyzer, etc.)

• English: upper-intermediate

Beneficial Skills

• Video and video networking experience a plus

• BS CS/EE/CE or relevant work experience (MS is a plus)

Responsibilities

• Bring up new SoCs, chipsets, sensors, and products

• Write, debug, and integrate new device drivers, protocols, RTOS and other firmware code across Arlo’s embedded product line

• Interacting with Hardware, Cloud Operations Team, Mobile Clients Team and various other cross-functional teams throughout Arlo

• Review board schematics and data sheets

• Enable test strategies for new components in upcoming products

• Support product…