Lead Embedded Firmware Engineer – Residential Gateways (prplOS & Wireless)

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Embedded Firmware Developer with 12+ years of experience to drive the architectural direction, optimization, and scaling of our next-generation Residential Gateway products. In this role, you will serve as the technical authority for our embedded firmware and wireless stack.

What you'll do

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Lead the architectural design of resilient, hardware-agnostic gateway firmware
• Test Automation & Scripting: Architect and implement automated testing and unit testing frameworks using Python to validate system components, APIs
• Performance Profiling & Optimization: Use perf, Valgrind (Memcheck, Massif, Helgrind), and kernel utilities to profile OS memory and CPU management
• Wireless Stack & Driver Integration: Design, configure, and optimize Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 features using hostapd, wpa_supplicant, and iw sub-systems
• Inter-process Communication (IPC): Develop and maintain scalable services utilizing ubus and/or iMTP to ensure reliable internal bus communication

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Python
• C++
• C
• Embedded C
• Unit testing
• Linux
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Microservices
• Docker
• Git
• Unity
• Test automation