Tech Lead, Embedded Platform

• The player-coach. You've set a team's technical direction: the architecture calls, the reviews where the hard problems get caught. And you want the people side too. Growing engineers, running 1:1s, hiring. You're not looking to trade one for the other. Maybe you've been a staff engineer or tech lead ready to own a team, or a manager who never stopped writing code. Either way, 60/40 sounds about right to you.
• At home where software meets hardware. Embedded Linux is your familiar ground: the kernel, the BSP, userspace, C and C++ running on the device itself. You've spent time close to the metal: wireless stacks, streaming protocols, drivers. You can reason about a bug whether it lives in the firmware, the network, or the silicon.
• You ship to hardware you can't reach. When it's firmware on a device mounted in someone's meeting room, a bad release doesn't just roll back with a hotfix. You've owned software that ships to the field, so staged rollouts, over-the-air updates, and testing on the devices themselves come naturally. "Works on my bench" isn't the finish line for you.
• You've turned new hardware into a product. Bare silicon arrives, and someone has to make it boot, talk to the network, manage its heat, and eventually stream. You've done that kind of bringup, or worked close enough to it to lead the people who do.

Logistics

Location: Remote in Europe, or hybrid from our Copenhagen office.

Employment type: Full-time preferred. We're also open to a project-based contract scoped to delivering the native protocol implementations.

Why Airtame:

• A shift worth architecting. Airtame's software is moving onto a widening range of devices, including hardware from partners. Leading Platform now means designing for that spread, a bigger and more open problem than keeping one hardware line running.
• A span you can hold. From the bootloader to the release that reaches the field, the whole layer is one person's to shape here, at a size where you can still keep it in your head.
• A healthy work-life balance.
• Significant responsibility and ownership over projects and your field of expertise.
• Five weeks paid vacation and 5 days of extra paid AirtameFlex days.
• Flexible work environment, with a hybrid mindset.
• Pension and private health insurance (on FTE Copenhagen contract).

Airtame is an equal opportunity employer. We have colleagues across the globe, with both in-office and full-time remote workers. This feeds into our international hybrid mindset, with people from 25+ nationalities that make up the Airtame team.

Our work-life cultural balance is key to our success. Our team encompasses our values of trust and open communication to support each other and to collaborate in a fun and collective way.