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.
Transparency First: We make everything visible so that everyone can operate better
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.
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
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
BS/MS Electrical or Computer Engineering
8+ years experience as a Firmware Engineer
Several years of experience as a Firmware Technical Lead
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
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.
Tive is an international company that develops advanced tracking solutions that provide full visibility of shipments in real time, regardless of where they are in the world. The company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with offices in Kosovo and Norway.