IoT Embedded Firmware Team Leader

Our mission is to transform how people and machines work together to push the boundaries of human productivity. A leader in Industrial AI, Augury helps the world’s manufacturers leverage real-time production insights to drive new levels of efficiency. Combining predictive and prescriptive AI technology with industry expertise, production teams can proactively address alerts, minimize downtime, reduce asset costs, and maximize yield and capacity. Our customers achieve payback in six months or less, enabling global scale. We're looking for team members excited to partner with the world's manufacturers and build the future of production together.

We’re looking for an IoT Embedded Firmware Team Leader to build, lead, and scale a hands-on team developing MCU-based firmware for our connected edge devices and sensors. You’ll own firmware architecture and delivery end-to-end, including low-power sensing, connectivity, security, diagnostics, and OTA, while partnering closely with hardware, manufacturing, product, and backend teams to ship reliable devices at scale.

A Day In Your Life

Team Leadership & Delivery

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4–6 embedded firmware engineers; drive hiring, onboarding, coaching, and career development.

• Own the firmware roadmap and delivery: planning, scoping, estimation, risk management, execution, and incremental releases aligned with product milestones.

• Establish engineering standards, design reviews, code reviews, documentation, testing, and quality gates, to ensure safe and repeatable releases.

Firmware Architecture & Development

• Architect and implement MCU firmware (ARM Cortex-M or similar) in C/C++ on RTOS platforms (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr), including drivers, HAL, bootloaders, and application services.

• Integrate sensors and peripherals over SPI/I²C/UART/ADC/DMA; design resilient state machines, timing, and power-optimized flows for battery-operated devices.

• Develop secure OTA pipelines for MCU-based devices (MCUboot/DFU/custom) with signing, versioning, rollback, and safe fleet rollouts.

Connectivity & Device Functionality

• Implement reliable connectivity flows: BLE (central/peripheral, GATT), gateway interactions, and where relevant, cellular IoT (LTE-M/NB-IoT) modem control.

• Design device-provisioning flows, identity management, and robust communication patterns.

Quality, Security & Tooling

• Raise firmware quality through unit and integration tests, HIL frameworks, static analysis (clang-tidy, cppcheck), and CI-based cross-compilation.

• Embed security by design: secure boot, key storage/rotation, cryptographic primitives, SBOM/CVE tracking, and layered security for constrained systems.

• Build factory tooling and production test applications: programming/provisioning flows, calibration, and end-of-line testing in partnership with manufacturing.

• Enable diagnostics and reliability at scale: structured logging, device health metrics, watchdog/recovery flows, and remote triage playbooks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with hardware, Embedded Linux, QA, backend, and product teams to define requirements and deliver cohesive device-to-cloud experiences.

What You Bring

• 6–10 years of embedded firmware experience shipping MCU-based products to production, including 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or people manager.

• Expert-level proficiency in C/C++ for constrained MCUs with strong RTOS fundamentals (tasking, timing, ISRs, memory management) and deep understanding of bootloaders/startup flows.

• Hands-on board bring-up and debugging experience: JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power profiling, and HW/SW co-debugging with electrical engineers.

• Strong experience integrating sensors and peripherals over SPI/I²C/UART/ADC/DMA, with robust state-machine and error-handling design.

• Wireless connectivity experience: BLE stacks (GAP/GATT) and gateway communication; familiarity with LTE-M/NB-IoT is a plus.

• Experience delivering secure OTA update systems for MCUs, including signing, rollback, and phased rollouts.

• Low-power design expertise for battery-operated devices: sleep states, clocking, duty-cycling, and storage wear considerations.

• A rigorous testing and quality mindset: unit/integration tests, HIL, static analysis, CI/CD, and fleet-scale release discipline.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to align cross-functional teams and drive outcomes.

• BSc in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Zephyr or FreeRTOS internals; Rust or Go for tooling/services; Python for test automation and factory systems.

• Knowledge of cellular IoT stacks (PPP, CoAP, LwM2M), GNSS, and modem AT command workflows.

• Advanced security experience: secure elements/TPMs, secure storage, PSA Certified, Arm TrustZone.

• DSP/ML at the edge (filters, FFT, fixed-point) for sensor/vibration analytics.

• Manufacturing exposure: large-scale programming/provisioning, calibration, quality workflows, and traceability.

Perks

• Stock options

• Paid parental leave

• Flex PTO

Augury is a people-first organization. We believe in fostering an inclusive environment in which employees feel encouraged to share their unique perspectives, leverage their strengths, and act authentically. We know that diverse teams are strong teams, and we welcome those from all backgrounds and varying experiences. We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We believe that diversity is more than just good intentions, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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