Senior Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer

About Arlo:

At Arlo, we're passionate about creating innovative and reliable solutions that help people protect what matters most to them. Our team is dedicated to delivering products that exceed our customers' expectations, while always pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of protection technology. We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe and secure, whether they're at home or away, and we're committed to providing our customers with the peace of mind they need to live their lives without worry. Arlo’s deep expertise in AI- and CV-powered analytics, cloud services, user experience, product design, and innovative wireless and RF connectivity enables the delivery of a seamless, smart security experience for Arlo users that is easy to set up and interact with every day.

Arlo is seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer to provide technical leadership in the architecture, design, and development of next-generation IoT and video streaming products. As a senior technical leader, you will define embedded firmware architecture across multiple product platforms, drive strategic technology initiatives, and solve the highly complex system-level challenges.
You will work closely with engineering leadership, product management, hardware, cloud, mobile, and manufacturing teams to shape Arlo's embedded software roadmap while mentoring engineers across the organization. The ideal candidate is recognized as an expert in embedded systems, multimedia processing, and connected devices, with a proven history of delivering innovative, scalable firmware platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term embedded firmware architecture across multiple product families.

• Lead the design and development of scalable, reusable firmware platforms for next-generation IoT and video streaming devices.

• Drive cross-functional technical initiatives spanning firmware, hardware, cloud services, mobile applications, manufacturing, and external ODM partners.

• Lead evaluation, selection, and adoption of new SoCs, chipsets, wireless technologies, image sensors, operating systems, and software frameworks.

• Architect high-performance real-time software for multimedia, networking, security, and power-efficient embedded systems.

• Establish engineering best practices for software architecture, coding standards, design reviews, testing, CI/CD, and release quality.

• Lead investigation and resolution of the organization's most challenging firmware and system-level issues.

• Drive firmware optimization for performance, memory footprint, power consumption, boot time, reliability, and scalability.

• Influence product architecture decisions from concept through production and long-term platform evolution.

• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to evaluate technical tradeoffs, technology investments, and development priorities.

• Mentor Staff, Senior, and mid-level firmware engineers through technical guidance, architecture reviews, and career development.

• Represent firmware engineering in executive technical reviews and strategic planning discussions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred, or equivalent industry experience.

• 15+ years of embedded firmware development experience, including extensive experience with connected IoT devices and video streaming products.

• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple product generations or embedded software platforms.

• Expert-level programming skills in Embedded C and modern C++.

• Deep expertise in RTOS, Embedded Linux, and real-time system architecture.

• Extensive experience designing complex multimedia systems involving video, audio, image processing, and streaming technologies (H.264/H.265).

• Deep understanding of embedded networking architectures and protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, SIP, WebRTC, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, and secure communication.

• Expert knowledge of device driver architecture, hardware abstraction layers (HAL), bootloaders, board support packages (BSP), and system bring-up.

• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, ARM processors, memory systems, DMA, interrupts, cache management, and power management.

• Proven success optimizing embedded software for performance, memory utilization, boot time, reliability, and manufacturing readiness.

• Extensive experience debugging complex hardware/software interactions using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and JTAG debuggers.

• Extensive ex