Member of Technical Staff - Device Software Engineer

• A builder's mindset: ship > fail > learn > improve
• Stay focused when multiple priorities compete and the ranking is unclear
• Work seamlessly across research and engineering
• Can navigate ambiguity and make progress in fast-moving research environments
• This is a founding-level position. You will work directly with the founders, shape the architecture from the ground up, and see your work in users' hands within months, not years.
• You have shipped a connected consumer device to production, not just to a demo table. You know what goes wrong between DVT and mass production
• Strong hands-on experience building production device applications and services on Android/AOSP, using Kotlin or Java and C/C++ for native components and hardware integration. You can own the on-device application end to end, including background execution, connectivity, audio and integration with platform services. Experience with embedded Linux is a plus; Python proficiency for tooling and testing is expected.
• Experience developing for AOSP-based devices beyond standard smartphone apps: integrating privileged applications and services, working with system permissions and hardware interfaces, and collaborating with an ODM or silicon vendor on the underlying platform. Qualcomm platform experience is a plus.
• Wireless connectivity in the real world: Wi-Fi provisioning, BLE, and ideally cellular. You have debugged a device that would not join a network in someone's home
• OTA and flash: bootloaders, secure boot, A/B partitioning, rollback, and staged rollouts across a fleet
• You can diagnose issues across application code, platform services and hardware interfaces
• A builder's mindset: you'd rather ship and measure than debate
• Bonus: real-time audio pipelines (I2S, DSP, AEC, wake word), on-device ML inference, factory test and manufacturing line bring-up, regulatory certification (CE, FCC), power optimization for battery life, experience in NLU / NLP

We lean toward senior engineers who can independently own production device software, but demonstrated ownership matters more than years of experience. Experience integrating real-time AI services into a consumer product is a plus.

What you get

• Founding-team equity and a real say in technical direction
• A product with signed launch partners, not a demo in search of a market
• A small team, short decision paths
• Cash compensation range of CHF 80 - 120k with significant equity incentives
• Opportunity to shape the future of hardware and social intelligent AI models

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

Compensation: CHF 70K – CHF 120K • Offers Equity

• • Estimated base salary CHF 70K – CHF 120K • Offers Equity

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