Local-First Smart Home Automation Engineer

The Greater Change

Dubai

On-site

AED 335,000 - 614,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Annual Leave per UAE Labour Law

Job summary

The Greater Change in Dubai seeks a highly skilled Smart Home Systems & Automation Engineer to architect and deploy production-grade Home Assistant environments across diverse host platforms. You will design robust, low-latency, privacy‑centric automation and bridge physical IoT hardware with Linux-based systems to deliver secure, resilient smart spaces.

Ideal candidates bring 3+ years of IoT/networking experience, deep Home Assistant mastery, and hands-on work with Zigbee/Z-Wave/Matter/Thread

Qualifications

3+ years professional or extensive homelab experience in IoT networking.

Responsibilities

Architect, deploy and provision production-grade Home Assistant servers across diverse host environments (bare-metal, Docker containers or Linux Containers).
Manage system administration tasks, including secure remote access setup, automated local/cloud backup configurations, database optimization and underlying Linux kernel/OS updates.
Supervise the installation, maintenance and secure configuration of critical Supervisor add-ons and Community Store (HACS) integrations.
Design, build and optimize robust local IoT mesh networks using Zigbee, Matter over Thread and Z‑Wave protocols across complex physical properties.
Execute hardware passthrough configurations (e.g., passing USB coordinators such as Sonoff ZBDongle‑E or SkyConnect safely from Linux hosts to specific containers/VMs).
Flash, configure and maintain custom hardware peripherals using ESPHome for localized presence detection, environmental telemetry and smart sensor logic.
Build elegant, maintainable and deeply complex state machines and multi‑condition automations using Node‑RED and Home Assistant scripts.
Program context‑aware physical environments by engineering intricate room schemas, behavioral scenes, adaptive lighting profiles and climate routines.
Develop local‑first, privacy‑focused voice control topologies using Home Assistant Assist, managing speech‑to‑text (Whisper) and text‑to‑speech (Piper) pipelines.
Monitor network topologies, debug complex state discrepancies via WebSocket/MQTT traffic and trace log structures to resolve device dropouts or timing collisions.
Ensure maximum system uptime by engineering strict fallback behaviors for when the main internet connection or individual mesh nodes experience hardware failure.