We are looking for an experienced Lead Firmware Wireless Engineer to drive the architecture, development, and delivery of next-generation wireless connectivity firmware for our devices. This role requires deep technical expertise in Wi-Fi systems, hands-on embedded development experience, and strong leadership skills to guide a team of engineers in building robust, intelligent, and high-performance wireless solutions.
Requirements
- Own the technical vision, roadmap, and architecture for Wi-Fi and connectivity firmware across product lines.
- Lead design decisions for wireless stack components including 802.11 MAC, drivers, supplicant, roaming logic, and radio control systems.
- Drive strategy for resiliency, proactive recovery, self-healing, telemetry, and predictive connectivity algorithms.
- Evaluate emerging Wi-Fi standards, chipsets, and technologies; guide adoption and integration into products.
- Lead and mentor a team of firmware engineers working on wireless subsystems.
- Provide technical coaching, code reviews, career guidance, and best-practice enforcement.
- Drive a culture of quality, innovation, and strong root-cause analysis.
- Coordinate with global engineering teams, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
- Architect and implement embedded firmware using C/C++, RTOS frameworks, and chipset SDKs.
- Lead integration of Wi-Fi chipsets (Realtek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, MediaTek, etc.) into product firmware.
- Oversee design of features such as: roaming (802.11k/v/r), band steering, mesh behaviors, WPS, WPA2/WPA3 security, radio resets, channel switching, recovery workflows, connection stability algorithms.
- Lead investigations into complex issues like: association/authentication failures, link-local IP issues, intermittent disconnects, congestion, noise, or mesh node hopping.
- Use diagnostics, logs, packet captures, and RF tools to identify root causes.
- Guide optimization efforts for: SNR resilience, band/channel selection logic, latency, throughput, scanning performance, multicast/GTK management.
- Work closely with hardware, QA, cloud analytics, mobile app, and field quality teams.
- Partner with data science/ML teams to operationalize telemetry-based models that predict connectivity failure.
- Engage with OEM chipset vendors to solve issues and drive firmware enhancements.
- Establish wireless test strategies, automation frameworks, and RF validation workflows.
- Drive release quality for wireless firmware across all product platforms.
- Assess risks, prioritize bug fixes, and ensure stable field performance.
