À propos de ce poste Real-Time Embedded Staff Software Engineer (10208) chez Extremenetworks
Extremenetworks · Toronto, Canada
Scope of the Role
As a Real-Time Embedded Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader driving the architecture, development, and evolution of our next-generation Wi-Fi solutions.
You will influence system-level design decisions, guide engineering teams, and ensure the robustness, performance, and scalability of embedded applications running on Linux OS.
Based in our Thornhill (Toronto) office, you will play a pivotal role in shaping product direction, mentoring engineers including senior engineers, and elevating engineering excellence across the organization.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Extensive experience in real-time embedded systems and data communication.
- Deep expertise in embedded Linux internals, kernel-space and user-space interactions, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of Wi-Fi protocols (IEEE 802.11) and wireless networking fundamentals.
- Advanced proficiency in C and C++ for embedded development.
- Proven track record designing and delivering complex embedded systems at scale.
- Strong experience with multi-threaded programming, concurrency models, and synchronization mechanisms.
- Solid understanding of networking technologies: Ethernet, IP, routing, switching, and LAN/WLAN concepts.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and present complex ideas clearly.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and drive architectural decision
- Experience with RF systems, spectrum analyzers, and wireless test equipment.
- Background in module performance tuning, system profiling, and real-time optimization.
- Experience contributing to or maintaining Linux kernel components is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with IEEE Wi-Fi and LAN standards development or participation in standards bodies
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex real-time embedded software systems for Wi-Fi products.
- Define technical direction for embedded Linux components, ensuring long-term
- maintainability, performance, and scalability.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives, aligning embedded software, hardware, and systems engineering.
- Evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve product quality and development efficiency.
Execution & Ownership
- Own critical software modules end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, validation, and long-term sustainment.
- Maintain and enhance existing embedded Wi-Fi products, providing engineering support to customers as needed.
- Participate in requirements analysis, technical documentation reviews, and specification discussions.
- Develop and execute component-level, module-level, subsystem, and system-level test procedures.
- Provide expert-level debugging and root-cause analysis for complex issues across the embedded Linux stack.
- Lead the development of multi-threaded, high-performance applications under Linux with real-time constraints.
- Conduct and enforce code reviews sessions, offering constructive feedback and mentoring junior developers.
- Ensure engineering rigor by defining best practices, coding standards, and design patterns for embedded development.
Collaboration & Influence
- Partner with product management, hardware teams, and customer engineering to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Act as a senior technical point of escalation for customer issues, guiding teams through complex problem resolution.
- Lead design and code reviews, providing high-quality feedback and raising the technical bar across the team.
Mentorship & Team Development
- Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers, fostering growth in embedded
- systems, networking, and Linux development.
- Champion a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to long-term team capability building through documentation, training, and architectural guidance.
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