Staff Embedded Engineer, Android OS
Motive — San Francisco, United States
- Company: Motive
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Salary: $185k - $273k
- Work model: On-site
- Category: Engineering
- Experience: Senior (6+yr)
- Timezone: US timezones
- Posted: 2026-08-05
Tags: Other Engineering, full-time, Actively Hiring, Quick Responder, B2b, Company Stage
Job description
About the Role:
As a Staff System Software Engineer, you will help Motive design and develop on-edge IoT platforms. As an exceptional technical engineer and self-starter, you are able to design, execute, and test complex system features on a range of Linux, Android and real-time operating systems.
This role will help build the next-generation Hardware platforms for Motive. You understand how to design and develop modular software features in a collaborative environment and agile team. This role offers immense career advancement and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology.
We are looking for a motivated and driven self-starter, to further our technical stack from end to end.
This is a Hybrid role (2x a week in office).
What You’ll Do:
- Design and develop high-performance firmware and software for cutting-edge IoT platforms.
- Debug, optimize, and validate firmware on complex multi-core architectures.
- Develop automated and unit-level functional testing to validate designs.
- Present and provide feedback on architectural discussions for next-generation business logic.
- Engage with a cross-disciplinary team to design, develop and test features up the stack.
- Validate and maintain features using cloud-based analysis at scale.
What We’re Looking For:
- 8+ years of experience in software development
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience with Kotlin, Java & C++
- Deep experience with AOSP (Android Open Source Project), Android OS and Linux
- Experience with embedded programming on Linux and / or RTOS