We are seeking a highly motivated Release/Integration Technical Program Engineer to join our Connectivity firmware team. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in embedded software development and a proven track record of delivering reliable firmware for wireless IoT solutions. This is a contract role with the potential to convert to full‑time.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and deploy firmware releases for multi‑component builds, including bootloader, firmware, OS, and applications, using embedded toolchains.
- Define versioning and branching strategies and automate promotions and changelog generation.
- Work cross‑functionally with SW, ASIC, DevOps, and SQA teams to resolve deployment issues and ensure release readiness.
- Review code commits to feature readiness, stability, and performance against the software and system roadmap.
- Leverage AI‑assisted tools to improve release velocity, reliability, and engineering productivity across the SDLC.
- Integrate unit and integration test results, quarantine flaky tests, automatically bisect failures, and block unsafe promotions.
- Develop strategies for safe rollback and roll‑forward.
- Manage complex, end‑to‑end SoC development workflows from pre‑silicon through launch.
- Maintain clear documentation to ensure all changes are documented, approved, and verified.
Job Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field, with 5–10 years of experience in integration and release engineering.
- Experience with development and source control tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, and Git.
- Knowledge of Unix/Linux and distributed computing environments.
- Experience working with toolchains for embedded software development.
- Experience with C programming; knowledge of Python is a plus.
- Experience with wireless products such as Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, or Zigbee is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a diverse, team‑oriented environment.
- Proven track record of delivering products and features on schedule.
Desirable Skills
- 5–10 years of hands‑on experience in real‑time embedded systems integration and management.
- Working knowledge of networking stacks, including Ethernet and the TCP/IP suite.
- Strong team player with a sense of urgency to meet product timelines.
- Experience managing complex projects using MS Project, Smartsheet, and JIRA.
- Working knowledge of Agile development workflows.