Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vivint Smart Home, an NRG owned company, is a leading smart home company in the United States, dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services. The Senior Director of Embedded Engineering will lead the teams responsible for building the software that powers Vivint devices, overseeing firmware, embedded Linux, and connectivity protocols.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing organization of firmware and embedded Linux engineers across multiple device teams
- Build a team culture rooted in engineering excellence, reliability, and customer impact
- Define career paths, set performance expectations, and invest in the growth of every engineer
- Partner with recruiting to attract top embedded engineering talent
- Own the multi-year technical roadmap for Vivint's embedded software platform — spanning firmware, embedded Linux, OS/runtime, imaging and video pipelines, and connectivity stacks
- Set architectural standards that support scalability, security, and maintainability across a diverse and growing device portfolio
- Drive modern embedded development practices: CI/CD for software, automated testing, and reliable OTA update infrastructure at fleet scale
- Partner with Hardware Engineering on new product introductions: co-design system architectures, evaluate SoCs and image sensors, and drive hardware-software integration from concept through mass production
- Serve as the embedded software owner in shared-responsibility engagements with JDM and silicon vendors, including chipset evaluation for compute, video, and networking
- Work with Backend Engineering to define clean device-to-cloud interfaces, remote device management, and real-time data flows
- Set and enforce standards for firmware quality, stability, and security — including secure boot, code signing, and secure OTA update processes
- Drive down field defect rates through rigorous pre-production testing, staged rollout practices, and post-launch fleet health monitoring
Skills
- 10+ years of embedded software engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Deep expertise in camera and video systems, including image signal processing and video encoding pipelines
- Strong understanding of AI and computer vision requirements — edge inference constraints, model optimization tradeoffs, and hardware platform considerations — sufficient to drive platform decisions
- Hands-on experience with firmware development (bare-metal and/or RTOS) and embedded Linux
- Experience managing or closely collaborating on hardware bring-up, BSP development, and JDM/contract manufacturer relationships
- Proven ability to define and execute multi-year embedded platform roadmaps in a consumer or commercial device company
- B.S. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- Some travel required
- Experience in the smart home or connected-device industry
- Familiarity with imaging and video pipeline technologies (GStreamer, H.264/H.265, WebRTC, RTSP, HLS) and connectivity stacks (Z-Wave, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, BLE, Matter, MQTT)
- Familiarity with camera SoC platforms
- Hands-on experience integrating or deploying AI/ML models on embedded devices
- Experience with Yocto or similar embedded Linux build systems
- Experience with OpenWrt or similar for network device platforms
Benefits
- Paid holidays and flexible paid time away
- Employee/Friends/Family Discounts
- Medical/dental/vision/life coverage
- 401(k) + Employer Match
- Employee Resource Groups
- Annual Bonus
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Quarterly Innovation Weeks
- Position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts
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