Tech Lead, Embedded Platform

Overview

At a big company, the platform layer is a hundred engineers, and you own a slice of it. A driver. A subsystem. A corner of the release pipeline. You go deep, but you rarely get to hold the whole thing. With us you will. One team owns the entire layer: the operating system and firmware on every Airtame, the streaming stack underneath it, the releases that reach devices in the field, and the work of turning new hardware into a shipping product.

The role is roughly 60% hands-on the hardest problems and 40% growing the engineers who work on them.

Year one outcomes

• Take AirPlay and Miracast from beta to default. They’re in beta today. A year from now they should be solid enough to ship on by default across the Airtame product line, so customers get them without opting in and never have to think about which protocol they’re using. Judge it by connection success rates on the fleet, and by how many customers rely on them day to day.
• Make firmware releases boring. The best release is the one nobody has to think about: a predictable cadence, an automated quality bar, and shipping to the whole fleet as routine. A year from now, cutting a release should be a low-drama process the team trusts, and that should let you ship improvements more often. Judge it by release frequency, and by the confidence behind each one.
• Turn the next board into a shipping Airtame. New silicon has to boot, hold a network, manage its heat, and run conferencing well enough to sell. By year-end there’s a repeatable path from a board landing on a desk to a build QA can test, and you own it. Judge it by how long that path takes, and whether the thermal and acoustic targets hold.
• Lead the team. You’ll run the 1:1s, set the technical bar, and support team members’ growth. The measure is simple: a year in, the team runs on your leadership day to day.

Who you are

• The player-coach. You’ve set a team’s technical direction: the architecture calls, the reviews where the hard problems get caught. And you want the people side too. Growing engineers, running 1:1s, hiring. You’re not looking to trade one for the other. Maybe you’ve been a staff engineer or tech lead ready to own a team, or a manager who never stopped writing code. Either way, 60/40 sounds about right to you.
• At home where software meets hardware. Embedded Linux is your familiar ground: the kernel, the BSP, userspace, C and C++ running on the device itself. You’ve spent time close to the metal: wireless stacks, streaming protocols, drivers. You can reason about a bug whether it lives in the firmware, the network, or the silicon.
• You ship to hardware you can’t reach. When it’s firmware on a device mounted in someone’s meeting room, a bad release doesn’t just roll back with a hotfix. You’ve owned software that ships to the field, so staged rollouts, over-the-air updates, and testing on the devices themselves come naturally. “Works on my bench” isn’t the finish line for you.
• You’ve turned new hardware into a product. Bare silicon arrives, and someone has to make it boot, talk to the network, manage its heat, and eventually stream. You’ve done that kind of bringup, or worked close enough to it to lead the people who do.

Why Airtame:

• A shift worth architecting. Airtame’s software is moving onto a widening range of devices, including hardware from partners. Leading Platform now means designing for that spread, a bigger and more open problem than keeping one hardware line running.
• A span you can hold. From the bootloader to the release that reaches the field, the whole layer is one person’s to shape here, at a size where you can still keep it in your head.
• A healthy work-life balance.
• Significant responsibility and ownership over projects and your field of expertise.
• Five weeks paid vacation and 5 days of extra paid AirtameFlex days.
• Flexible work environment, with a hybrid mindset.
• Pension and private health insurance (on FTE Copenhagen contract).