Senior Embedded Firmware Architect

Crestron Electronics; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 132,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401K with company match

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Job summary

Crestron Electronics, Inc. is seeking a Technical Lead Firmware Engineer to guide embedded firmware development. You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and mentor engineers while coordinating across firmware, hardware, software, QA, DevOps, manufacturing, and product teams.

You will lead hands-on firmware work, diagnose complex issues, and ensure release readiness. A strong background in C/C++, embedded Linux, and system-level debugging is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Embedded firmware development and debugging using C/C++ across product lifecycles.
• Technical leadership of firmware features, platforms, or cross-functional workstreams from concept to release.
• Embedded Linux, RTOS, BSP, bootloader, kernel, driver, device-tree/configuration, networking.

Responsibilities

• Drive firmware architecture, direction, and design decisions for complex workstreams.
• Lead hands-on development, integration, debug, and hardening of firmware features and drivers.
• Diagnose and resolve system-level issues across firmware, hardware, OS, application, networking, and vendor boundaries.
• Provide technical coaching, design and code review, and engineering standards.
• Translate requirements into execution plans with milestones and owners across teams.
• Define validation strategy, release-readiness criteria, and regression coverage.
• Create architecture docs, debug playbooks, root-cause analyses, and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Embedded firmware development

C/C++

Technical leadership

Embedded Linux

System-level debugging

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/EE

Master's Degree preferred

Job description

Crestron Electronics, Inc. is seeking a Technical Lead Firmware Engineer to guide embedded firmware development. You will own architecture, drive design decisions, and mentor engineers while coordinating across firmware, hardware, software, QA, DevOps, manufacturing, and product teams.

You will lead hands-on firmware work, diagnose complex issues, and ensure release readiness. A strong background in C/C++, embedded Linux, and system-level debugging is essential for success.