Senior Embedded Platform Architect - Onsite Tech Lead

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a Principal Embedded Platform Architect to lead embedded software architecture across QNX, Linux, and Android Automotive. The role is centered on coordinating customer needs with an offshore engineering team, defining robust solution approaches, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.

The ideal candidate brings 12+ years of embedded experience, deep expertise in Qualcomm platforms, and proven ability to lead complex architectures and

Qualifications

• 12+ years of embedded software development and platform architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in C and C++.
• Strong architecture and development experience across QNX, Embedded Linux, and Android.
• Experience with Android platform, middleware, framework, native services, HAL, NDK, JNI, AIDL, APEX, and Project Treble.
• Strong knowledge of Linux and QNX internals, including processes, threads, IPC, scheduling, memory, storage, networking, and system services.
• Experience with embedded platform services, middleware, device interfaces, hardware abstraction, and cross-platform libraries.
• Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, preferably automotive or similarly complex embedded platforms.
• Understanding of QNX Hypervisor, virtualization, and multi-OS platform architectures.
• Experience in system performance analysis, benchmarking, profiling, instrumentation, and optimization.
• Understanding of embedded-device observability, telemetry, health monitoring, diagnostics, logging, and remote debugging.
• Working knowledge of embedded platform security, secure boot, keys, certificates, signing, TPM/TEE, secure updates, and network security.
• Understanding of on-device AI architecture, model deployment, edge-AI constraints, and Qualcomm AI capabilities.
• Experience in Linux-to-Android service migration and platform modernization.
• Strong troubleshooting capability across application, middleware, operating system, driver, hardware, and network layers.
• Proven experience leading customer-facing architecture discussions and distributed engineering teams.
• Excellent technical communication, presentation, documentation, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single onsite technical point of contact between the customer and the offshore engineering team.
• Define solution approaches and drive architecture decisions across embedded platforms.
• Coordinate offshore specialists, review technical deliverables, and manage cross-workstream dependencies.
• Ensure LTTS commitments are delivered with the expected quality and timelines.

Skills

Embedded software architecture

C/C++

QNX

Embedded Linux

Android / Android Automotive

Linux / QNX internals

System integration

Offshore coordination

Customer-facing architecture

Security concepts (secure boot, TPM)

Tools

QNX Momentics

Git

Docker

ADB / Logcat

Perfetto / Profiling

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a Principal Embedded Platform Architect to lead embedded software architecture across QNX, Linux, and Android Automotive. The role is centered on coordinating customer needs with an offshore engineering team, defining robust solution approaches, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.

The ideal candidate brings 12+ years of embedded experience, deep expertise in Qualcomm platforms, and proven ability to lead complex architectures and