Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Job Description

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Sydney | Hybrid | IoT

The Mission

Build the software behind a new generation of connected consumer products, from early proof of concept through to global mass production.

You’ll work across embedded systems, device connectivity, user interfaces and cloud-connected features, helping turn ambiguous product ideas into reliable, intuitive and commercially successful hardware.

The Challenge

This isn’t a narrow firmware role. You’ll join a multidisciplinary product squad alongside electronics, mechanical, industrial design, quality and product development specialists, owning software across the complete device experience.

Depending on the product, that could include:

• Developing embedded software in C and C++

• Building software for microcontrollers and connected devices

• Contributing to React Native interfaces running on physical products

• Integrating device, mobile and cloud components

• Designing reusable software architectures across multiple product families

• Reading schematics and debugging across hardware and software boundaries

• Prototyping quickly during concept development

• Maturing code through formal release gates into production-quality software

• Supporting manufacturing, validation and occasional factory engagement

• Collaborating with local teams, overseas engineering partners and remote software groups

The engineering lifecycle runs for roughly two to three years, taking products from an initial hypothesis through proof of concept, commercial approval, pilot builds and mass production.

The Bar

You don’t need to arrive as the finished article. You do need to be a strong software engineer who can solve problems, write code and operate comfortably around physical products.

The strongest profiles will include:

• Commercial C and C++ development experience

• Strong programming fundamentals and practical problem-solving ability

• Experience developing software for embedded systems, IoT devices or connected hardware

• An understanding of software architecture, reusable code and clean engineering practices

• The ability to read electronic schematics and debug interactions between software and hardware

• Experience with unit testing, code reviews and structured development processes

• Confidence working through unclear or incomplete requirements

• Clear communication across multiple engineering disciplines

Exposure to React, React Native, JavaScript, Python, cloud platforms or mobile development would be valuable, but not essential.

Experience in consumer electronics, medical devices, robotics, industrial IoT or another product-led engineering environment would translate well.

The Hire

You’re likely a software-first engineer who wants to work closer to the hardware.

You may already be an embedded specialist, or you may have started in full-stack, mobile or application software and developed a genuine interest in electronics, devices and physical products.

You’ll probably enjoy this role if you:

• Prefer tangible products over purely digital platforms

• Can move quickly without sacrificing long-term quality

• Know when a prototype needs to be fast and when production code needs to be robust

• Ask good questions when requirements are unclear

• Work collaboratively rather than treating firmware as an internal service

• Care about the full user experience, not just your individual codebase

• Want broad technical exposure without giving up hands-on development

This team values raw problem-solving ability over a perfect keyword match.

The "Why me?"

You’ll join an unusually experienced software group with significant principal-level capability across embedded systems, connected devices, user interfaces and cloud technologies.

That means genuine access to engineers who have built products at scale and can help you grow across multiple layers of the stack.

There are also several long-term career paths available:

• Remain deeply hands-on and progress toward principal engineering

• Take on technical leadership or architecture responsibilities

• Move toward engineering management as the team continues to scale

• Develop broader capability across embedded, IoT, UI and cloud systems

The "Why this?"

• Work exclusively on new product development

• See your software move from concept to globally manufactured hardware

• Join a growing engineering function with multiple approved hires

• Contribute earlier in the product lifecycle and influence product architecture

• Work across embedded software, IoT, connected interfaces and physical systems

• Build reusable platforms rather than repeatedly starting from scratch

• Learn from a highly experienced, low-turnover engineering team

• Access annual incentives and a long-term equity-style reward

• Gain occasional exposure to international manufacturing operations

This is an opportunity to build software people can physically interact with, and to stay close enough to the product to see exactly how your decisions shape the final experience.

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