Senior Embedded Systems Architect – Hybrid

Smart Start, Inc.; Grapevine (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Birthday & Anniversary bonus

Discounts and life insurance

Telemedicine access

Short & long-term disability

Job summary

Smart Start, Inc. is seeking an embedded systems architect to lead cross‑functional teams across hardware, application software, and backend interfaces. The role focuses on defining system and firmware architectures, OTA strategies, and scalable, production‑ready solutions.

Comfortable with AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, and architecture exploration. The candidate should have 8+ years in embedded systems, strong C/C++ with RTOS, and a track record in hardware/software

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Embedded Systems or a related field required.
• A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in embedded systems or embedded software development required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience leading embedded software architecture, major feature design, platform design, or end-to-end embedded systems initiatives required.
• Advanced proficiency in embedded C/C++ programming required.
• Strong experience developing firmware within RTOS environments and real-time systems required.
• Demonstrated expertise in hardware/software integration and low-level debugging required.

Responsibilities

• Own and guide end-to-end embedded systems architecture across the device, gateway, communication layer, backend service handoff, data ingestion, data storage expectations, diagnostics, and operational monitoring.
• Design and document complete system flows, including embedded software workflows, interface contracts, message and data flows, boot flows, diagnostic flows, fault-handling flows, recovery flows, and backend data handling assumptions.
• Architect over-the-air update approaches, including versioning, validation, integrity checks, staged rollout, failure detection, rollback, fallback, safe recovery, and field-service considerations when an update does not complete successfully.
• Develop, review, and guide embedded code, prototypes, APIs, and integration patterns where hands-on validation is needed; guide clean, scalable implementation.
• Apply object-oriented, modular, and testable design principles in embedded C and in relevant higher-level languages or tooling environments; use C++ where appropriate.
• Architect and enhance embedded systems for real-time environments using RTOS concepts, state machines, task scheduling, event-driven design.

Skills

Embedded Systems

C/C++

RTOS

System architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering/Embedded Systems

Tools

JIRA

SVN

Python/Java/C# tooling

Job description

Smart Start, Inc. is seeking an embedded systems architect to lead cross‑functional teams across hardware, application software, and backend interfaces. The role focuses on defining system and firmware architectures, OTA strategies, and scalable, production‑ready solutions.

Comfortable with AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, and architecture exploration. The candidate should have 8+ years in embedded systems, strong C/C++ with RTOS, and a track record in hardware/software