Real-Time Embedded Staff Software Engineer (10208)

Scope of the Role

As a Real-Time Embedded Staff Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader driving the architecture, development, and evolution of our next-generation Wi-Fi solutions.

You will influence system-level design decisions, guide engineering teams, and ensure the robustness, performance, and scalability of embedded applications running on Linux OS.

Based in our Thornhill (Toronto) office, you will play a pivotal role in shaping product direction, mentoring engineers including senior engineers, and elevating engineering excellence across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex real-time embedded software systems for Wi-Fi products.

• Define technical direction for embedded Linux components, ensuring long-term

• maintainability, performance, and scalability.

• Drive cross-team technical initiatives, aligning embedded software, hardware, and systems engineering.

• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve product quality and development efficiency.

Execution & Ownership

• Own critical software modules end-to-end, from requirements and design through implementation, validation, and long-term sustainment.

• Maintain and enhance existing embedded Wi-Fi products, providing engineering support to customers as needed.

• Participate in requirements analysis, technical documentation reviews, and specification discussions.

• Develop and execute component-level, module-level, subsystem, and system-level test procedures.

• Provide expert-level debugging and root-cause analysis for complex issues across the embedded Linux stack.

• Lead the development of multi-threaded, high-performance applications under Linux with real-time constraints.

• Conduct and enforce code reviews sessions, offering constructive feedback and mentoring junior developers.

• Ensure engineering rigor by defining best practices, coding standards, and design patterns for embedded development.

Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with product management, hardware teams, and customer engineering to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Act as a senior technical point of escalation for customer issues, guiding teams through complex problem resolution.

• Lead design and code reviews, providing high-quality feedback and raising the technical bar across the team.

Mentorship & Team Development

• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers, fostering growth in embedded

• systems, networking, and Linux development.

• Champion a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

• Contribute to long-term team capability building through documentation, training, and architectural guidance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Master’s preferred).

• Extensive experience in real-time embedded systems and data communication.

• Deep expertise in embedded Linux internals, kernel-space and user-space interactions, and performance optimization.

• Strong understanding of Wi-Fi protocols (IEEE 802.11) and wireless networking fundamentals.

• Advanced proficiency in C and C++ for embedded development.

• Proven track record designing and delivering complex embedded systems at scale.

• Strong experience with multi-threaded programming, concurrency models, and synchronization mechanisms.

• Solid understanding of networking technologies: Ethernet, IP, routing, switching, and LAN/WLAN concepts.

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence across teams and present complex ideas clearly.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and drive architectural decision

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with RF systems, spectrum analyzers, and wireless test equipment.

• Background in module performance tuning, system profiling, and real-time optimization.

• Experience contributing to or maintaining Linux kernel components is a strong asset.

• Familiarity with IEEE Wi-Fi and LAN standards development or participation in standards bodies