Senior Embedded Systems Engineer

Taiv

Winnipeg

Hybrid

CAD 100,000 - 150,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Employee stock options

Health benefits

Flex-time & unlimited paid vacation

Gym membership

Catered lunches 3x per week

Dog-friendly office

Hybrid work model

Free parking on-site

Job summary

Taiv, a Winnipeg-based AI hardware startup, is seeking a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to own the Android platform on Taiv boxes installed behind TVs in venues across North America. You will work on AOSP, HALs, kernel drivers, and the real-world media pipeline that powers our content and AI features.

As the most senior embedded engineer, you will set architectural directions, guide bring-up on ARM SoCs, and mentor teammates while staying hands-on in code, delivering robust, low-latency

Qualifications

5+ years of embedded software experience with Android platform work (AOSP, framework, HAL).
Strong C and C++; Java or Kotlin for framework work; Python or shell for tooling.
Linux kernel experience: drivers, device trees, board bring-up on ARM SoCs.
Multimedia experience: hardware video codecs and Android audio HAL.
Experience with HDMI/AV systems: video processing, CEC, EDID, display pipelines.

Responsibilities

Own the Android platform on Taiv’s hardware: AOSP builds, framework changes, HALs, system services.
Develop and debug Linux kernel drivers and device trees; lead board bring-up for new hardware revisions.
Build and tune the multimedia pipeline: video input, codecs, and real-time processing; own audio/video paths.
Address HDMI edge cases, EDID quirks, CEC, and cross-vendor TV compatibility.
Debug across all layers from app to kernel to hardware; mentor teammates while staying hands-on.

Skills

Android platform

C/C++

Java/Kotlin

Python/Shell

Linux kernel

Multimedia codecs

HDMI/AV systems

ADB/FASTBOOT

Cross-compilation

AOSP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Git

Serial debugging tools

Job description

Taiv is a fast-growing tech startup located in Winnipeg, Canada. Taiv uses AI to make business TV more fun, engaging, profitable, and easier to manage, starting with bars and restaurants. We’ve built proprietary tech that uses computer vision to watch live TV and improve the content with contextually-aware commercials, content, and games. Our tech also automates the manual AV tasks that venues have to do every day, to make bar management easier, standardized, and more profitable. We’re venture-capital backed and graduated from Y Combinator, the world’s top tech accelerator, in winter 2020. Program alumni include Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, etc. (www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies).

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to join our growing team!

Who We Are:

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Systems Engineer to join our growing team!

What We’re Looking For:

Everything Taiv does runs through the Taiv box, the Android device we install behind TVs in bars and restaurants across North America. This role owns the software on it. Our boxes sit in AV racks in real venues and run every day in messy environments, where the equipment around them rarely behaves the way the spec says it will.

You’ll work deep in the embedded stack, across the Android platform and the video and audio paths our AI depends on. You’ll bring up new hardware revisions, cut latency out of the video path, chase down HDMI compatibility bugs that show up on exactly one brand of TV, and decide how our embedded platform evolves as the fleet grows. The work you do shows up in the performance and reliability of every box we deploy.

This is a role for someone who has built and shipped a physical product before and likes the problems that live where software meets hardware. Ideally you’ve worked on TVs, AV gear, or other multimedia products. As the most senior embedded engineer on the team, you’ll set technical direction, make the architecture calls, and mentor the engineers around you while staying hands-on in the code. If you’ve spent your career going deeper into the stack while everyone else moved up it, this role was built for you.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Own the Android platform on Taiv’s hardware: AOSP builds, framework changes, HALs, and the system services that keep tens of thousands of deployed devices healthy.
Develop and debug Linux kernel drivers and device trees, and lead board bring-up for new hardware revisions on ARM SoCs.
Build and tune the multimedia pipeline: video input, hardware codecs, and real-time video processing. Own the audio and video paths that feed our on-device AI.
Make Taiv work in the real world of venue AV: HDMI edge cases, EDID quirks, CEC and TV control, and compatibility across thousands of different cable boxes and TVs.
Debug across every layer, from app to framework to HAL to kernel to hardware, using remote tooling on deployed devices and lab equipment on your desk.

Who You Are:

You’ve gone deep on Android. You’re comfortable in AOSP source and know what happens between an app call and the driver underneath it. You’ve shipped platform-level changes to real devices.
You’re at home in the kernel. Device trees, driver debugging, board bring-up, and the occasional kernel panic are all normal work for you.
You know multimedia end to end: how video gets captured, encoded, decoded, and displayed, and where latency hides in that path.
You debug with hardware on your desk. When the logs run out, you reach for a serial console or a logic analyzer.
You think in fleets. Watchdogs, staged rollouts, remote updates, and recovery paths come naturally because you’ve supported devices you can’t physically touch.
You work independently and own a problem from vague symptom all the way to shipped fix.

Your Qualifications:

5+ years of embedded software experience, with significant time on Android platform work (AOSP, framework, HAL development)
Strong C and C++, comfortable in Java or Kotlin for framework work and Python or shell for tooling
Linux kernel experience: writing and debugging drivers, device trees, and board bring-up on ARM SoCs
Multimedia experience: hardware video codecs and the Android audio HAL
Experience with HDMI and AV systems: video processing, CEC, EDID, and display pipelines
Fluent with adb, fastboot, git, and cross-compilation toolchains
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience

Nice To Have:

Experience with ARM SoCs used in set-top, TV, or streaming products
Experience running ML models on embedded devices (NPU or GPU acceleration)
Bootloader and Android system update experience (A/B updates, recovery)
You’ve shipped a consumer electronics product and supported it in the field at scale

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