Embedded Software Development Engineer

At Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone – while working hard to bring communities together.

As a skilled Embedded Software Development Engineer, you will be the tech lead in the team, and advisor to your manager and senior management. Your work will be both tactical and strategic, participating in both goals execution and in our yearly and multi-year planning exercises. You will impact software architecture, dependencies, performance, and business value. You will solve complex software problems, and your solutions will be extensible and scalable.

You may also drive strategic work on new sensors and algorithms evaluation and specific tools development as needed. You are passionate about IoT, responsive and flexible. The successful candidate will investigate, prototype, and deliver high-quality software, working in a dynamic, team-focused Agile/Scrum environment.

Key job responsibilities
1. Design and develop highly scalable, reliable, and efficient embedded systems.
2. Architect complex embedded software systems, ensuring they meet performance, security, and reliability requirements.
3. Lead the technical direction and implementation of embedded software projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams.
4. Mentor and guide more junior engineers, sharing technical expertise and best practices.
5. Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, proposing innovative solutions to complex problems.
6. Stay up-to-date with the latest embedded systems technologies and industry trends, and apply them to improve Ring products.
7. Collaborate with product managers, hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to define and deliver embedded software requirements.
8. Ensure embedded software meets quality standards and regulatory requirements through rigorous testing and validation.
9. Contribute to the overall technical strategy and roadmap.

A day in the life
As a Software Development Engineer, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other engineers. You will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You will help invent new features, design, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services. You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including C, C++, Python, Linux Kernel, device driver development.

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- Experience in professional, non-internship software development
- Experience writing low level drivers
- Experience with general troubleshooting/debugging of hardware

Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

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