As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will lead critical software engineering initiatives and set the strategic technical direction across multiple embedded product lines, including body-worn cameras, in-car cameras, stationary cameras, drones, and emerging connected device solutions. Your role involves defining and significantly advancing embedded software architectures and ensuring system-wide excellence in stability, scalability, security, and performance.

Location: Seattle or Boston

Reports To: Sr Engineering Manager

Define and significantly advance embedded software architectures for Axon’s current and future connected device products.

Lead high-level strategic planning and coordination for multi-month embedded engineering projects across multiple product lines.

Collaborate closely with Product Management, Design, Engineering, and executive leadership to deliver innovative, integrated, and mission-critical solutions.

Establish and enforce Axon-wide standards for embedded software design, quality, reliability, and scalability.

Evaluate and integrate leading-edge open-source technologies and industry standards, guiding architectural trade-offs and long-term strategic choices.

Provide executive-level guidance and mentorship, significantly enhancing the capabilities and technical decision-making of the embedded software engineering teams.

Continuously improve software engineering practices and drive excellence through strategic retrospectives, planning sessions, and innovation cycles.

12+ years of professional software development experience, with extensive expertise in C/C++, Go, Python, or comparable systems programming languages.

Deep, demonstrated expertise in embedded systems architecture, firmware integration, and device-level software engineering.

Staff Embedded Application Software Engineer

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