IoT Firmware Architect & Technical Lead

Telit Cinterion; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Telit Cinterion seeks a hands-on Firmware Architect to lead firmware architecture and technical planning for IoT solutions across Telit’s product portfolio and customer programs.

You will define scalable firmware architectures for MCU-based embedded products, guide firmware execution from a technical perspective, and translate customer requirements into clear technical direction for development teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, CS, or related field.
• 7–10+ years of embedded firmware development, shipped IoT devices.
• Experience defining firmware architecture across BSP, HAL, drivers, and services.
• Experience with cellular modem integration, GNSS, Wi‑Fi, BLE, and interfaces (UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, USB).
• Experience with secure boot, signed firmware, and secure update mechanisms.
• Strong customer-facing communication to translate needs into requirements.
• Understanding MQTT/HTTPs, TLS, and device-to-cloud patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own firmware architecture for Telit Cinterion IoT products and customer programs, across cellular devices.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for firmware design, bring-up, debugging, integration, and root-cause analysis.
• Translate customer requirements and field issues into firmware requirements and architecture direction.
• Guide internal and partner engineering through architecture docs, interface definitions, reviews, and guidance.
• Architect wireless and device-to-cloud capabilities (cellular, Wi‑Fi, BLE, GNSS, OTA/FOTA, diagnostics, telemetry).
• Define embedded security architecture for devices (secure boot, signed firmware, secure update, key management, secure storage).
• Drive firmware platform reuse and maintainability via modular architecture, drivers, BSP/HAL standards, and logging.
• Mentor and, where applicable, manage firmware and validation engineers.

Skills

Embedded firmware

Firmware architecture

C/C++

Technical leadership

Customer-facing comms

Security architecture

Device-to-cloud

Debugging

Education

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer Science

Tools

Yocto/OpenWrt

Linux BSPs

Kernel drivers

UART

SPI

I2C

Job description

Telit Cinterion seeks a hands-on Firmware Architect to lead firmware architecture and technical planning for IoT solutions across Telit’s product portfolio and customer programs.

You will define scalable firmware architectures for MCU-based embedded products, guide firmware execution from a technical perspective, and translate customer requirements into clear technical direction for development teams.