Firmware Engineering Lead at Tive in Boston, MA

At Tive, we imagine a fully-transparent world in which everything and everyone is connected. We innovate beyond what the world thought possible—so what people hold near and dear arrives on time and in full.

We believe (and live!) four core values:

• Transparency First: We make everything visible so that everyone can operate better
• Always strive to make things simpler
• We are One Team, we have each other's backs
• Relentless iteration to optimize and improve

Whether shipped by road, rail, ocean, or air, Tive reduces shipment delays, minimizes rejected loads, and decreases theft, damage, and spoilage. Our customers count on Tive to ensure that their shipments are delivered on time and in full—because every shipment matters.

As the Firmware Lead at Tive you will be responsible for two main items. First, you will be responsible for building, leading, challenging, and coordinating the work breakdown of a small, but powerful and continually improving global firmware team as they work on developing the Tive roadmap. Second, you will be responsible for personally contributing to the development of the roadmap. While it won’t be a constant, the expected steady-state split of responsibilities is about 25% managerial and 75% development.

Our ideal candidate must have:

• Technical leadership of several concurrent firmware development projects
• Hiring and performance management - knowing how to build a great technical team
• Proficiency with bare metal and RTOS programming in C and C++
• Strong debugging skills including the use of cloud infrastructure and instrumentation to monitor system performance and crash logs remotely
• Experience building highly efficient firmware for battery sensitive applications/IOT
• Experience in radio technologies such as WiFi, Cellular, BLE
• Experience with I2C, UART, TCP/IP, UDP, SPI, MQTT
• Experience with COTS sensors
• Experience utilizing CI/CD within firmware projects building and testing with unit tests, integration and system tests
• Experience developing manufacturing tests
• Experience validating and integrating third party firmware from vendors and consultants
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies

Preferred Experience:

• Experience leading technical teams
• Experience working with Customer Success to troubleshoot and correct customer issues
• Experience using protocol buffers to serialize and deserialize data used in communication with external systems
• Experience with reviewing PCB layouts and design best practices
• Experience working with Asia Design/MFG partners

Other Requirements:

• BS/MS Electrical or Computer Engineering
• 8+ years experience as a Firmware Engineer
• Several years of experience as a Firmware Technical Lead

What you’ll be doing:

• You will be leading a small team in the development of an aggressive hardware roadmap
• You will be building firmware for new projects
• You will be maintaining and improving our firmware over time
• Drive continuous improvement in firmware quality, reliability, and development processes
• Support compliance, validation, and release activities in line with company and ISO procedures

What does Tive offer?

• A chance to join what may very well turn out to be the most important company in your career.
• The autonomy and resources to build what you know how to build.
• Work with a committed global team that have each others back.
• Office-based or hybrid options. Your choice.
• Competitive equity to ensure all of our employees have a sense of ownership in the long-term success of Tive’s growth.

We celebrate diversity, and consider it key to our success as both a team and a company. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect for all employees.