Tech Lead - Embedded Platform

Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated

Level inferred from job title

Job description

A player-coach engineering lead who owns Airtame's entire platform layer: the operating system and firmware on every device, the streaming stack, releases to the field, and new hardware bringup. Roughly 60% hands-on technical work and 40% growing and leading the engineers on the team.

At a glance

Employment
Full-time · Employee or contractor
Work mode
Hybrid

What you'll do

  • Take AirPlay and Miracast from beta to default across the Airtame product line
  • Make firmware releases boring: a predictable cadence, an automated quality bar, and routine shipping to the whole fleet
  • Turn the next board into a shipping Airtame: boot, network, thermal management, and conferencing performance, with a repeatable path from board to QA-testable build
  • Lead the team: run 1:1s, set the technical bar, support team members' growth, and hire
  • Push AI-assisted development further: sharper workflows, better tooling choices, and new patterns that make the group faster
  • Own the whole platform layer, from the bootloader to the release that reaches the field

What we're looking for

  • Have set a team's technical direction: architecture calls and the reviews where hard problems get caught
  • Want the people side too: growing engineers, running 1:1s, hiring
  • Embedded Linux experience: the kernel, the BSP, userspace, C and C++ running on the device itself
  • Experience close to the metal: wireless stacks, streaming protocols, drivers
  • Can reason about a bug whether it lives in the firmware, the network, or the silicon
  • Have owned software that ships to the field, with staged rollouts, over-the-air updates, and testing on the devices themselves
  • Have done new hardware bringup, or worked close enough to it to lead the people who do
  • Use AI as a daily tool: write code with it, debug with it, prototype with it, and help others do the same

Your team

Platform

One team owns the entire platform layer: the operating system and firmware on every Airtame, the streaming stack underneath it, the releases that reach devices in the field, and turning new hardware into a shipping product. The team is cross-functional and spread across Europe.

Benefits

  • 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)

Apply

About Airtame

Airtame makes the hardware and the software that runs on it; a change to the firmware ships to every Airtame in the field. The company is around 55 people, headquartered in Copenhagen, with a cross-functional team spread across Europe reaching a global market from a small base. Airtame's software is moving onto a widening range of devices, including hardware from partners.

Key facts

  • around 55 people
  • Copenhagen
  • Around 55 people, headquartered in Copenhagen
  • Team is cross-functional and spread across Europe
  • People from 25+ nationalities
  • Both in-office and full-time remote workers
  • Software is moving onto a widening range of devices, including hardware from partners

What they value

  • Trust
  • Open communication
  • Work-life cultural balance
  • Collaborate in a fun and collective way