Embedded Software Development Engineer, Ring

Ring is working on innovative smart security products and we are looking for skilled individuals with a strong bias for action and deep technical knowledge to join our core development team in Cambridge.

The ideal candidate is passionate about internet connected devices, has a strong understanding of embedded and systems software, and understands how your code runs on hardware. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative peer environment.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be responsible for defining, building and supporting the system design, architecture, and software for Ring IoT products. As a member of our team, you will be interacting closely with the business and cross-functional engineering teams across different organizations to gather engineering requirements, design and implement new features. You will contribute to all aspects of an agile software & systems development life cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operations. You work with your team on solving the hard problems; you are technical, you attack every problem with enthusiasm.

Key job responsibilities
- Dive deep to help solve critical design issues involving algorithm, develop hardware/software/firmware interfaces, IoT interfaces, etc
- Participate in design reviews for complex embedded systems, simulations, algorithms and software development owned by your team and partner teams
- Influences within your team and partner teams to help drive and develop the technical implementation for overall system designs
- Identify and implement process improvements which improve your team’s agility. This may include improvements to design, automation, development, test or operations.
- Define and/or refine system requirements, participate in the development and delivery of Interoperability-related features such as system health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation.
- Develop embedded software in C/C++

A day in the life
Your work is very hands-on and multi-disciplinary. You will be working closely with vendors, engineers, and product teams. You write documents, carry out experiments, demonstrate proof-of-concepts, build prototypes, and ship sophisticated systems.

About the team
Ring's mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods. Ring is committed to offering smart security solutions that are dependable and reliable. You will be part of a fast-paced team that is passionate about delivering innovative solutions to complex problems.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience in embedded development in C/C++
- Knowledge of machine learning model architecture and inference
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, or experience (non-internship) in professional software development

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and parallel computing

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