IoT / embedded engineer

Mechabits; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mechabits is seeking a device connectivity engineer to design and ship telemetry pipelines that work across hardware, mobile, and cloud platforms. You will help ensure reliable pairing, sync, offline behavior, and robust health instrumentation for field deployments.

The role requires hands-on experience with BLE/MQTT and a strong emphasis on debugging across device and network layers, with clear written English for asynchronous collaboration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with connected devices, BLE, or MQTT.
• Bridge firmware/hardware constraints with app or cloud services.
• Strong debugging instincts across device and network layers.
• Clear written English for async collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship device connectivity and telemetry pipelines
• Partner on mobile pairing, sync, and offline-aware behaviour
• Instrument device health, message reliability, and ops dashboards
• Validate behaviour under weak networks and real field conditions
• Leave runbooks clients can operate after handover

Skills

BLE

MQTT

Device connectivity

Telemetry

Debugging

Written English

Job description

Connect devices, BLE/GPS or MQTT telemetry, and ops dashboards into one reliable picture field teams can trust.

You will help ship connected products where hardware, mobile, and cloud must agree — pairing, sync, telemetry quality, and ops visibility included. Ideal if you have shipped device-backed products and care about what happens when the network drops.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship device connectivity and telemetry pipelines
• Partner on mobile pairing, sync, and offline-aware behaviour
• Instrument device health, message reliability, and ops dashboards
• Validate behaviour under weak networks and real field conditions
• Leave runbooks clients can operate after handover

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with connected devices, BLE, MQTT, or similar
• Comfort bridging firmware/hardware constraints with app or cloud services
• Strong debugging instincts across device and network layers
• Clear written English for async collaboration