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Wireless Software Engineer

USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, implement, and maintain wireless software for deployed edge devices, including radio configuration, channel/power management, QoS, and remote node interrogation.

Role type

Senior IC wireless software engineer (edge devices & RF)

Builds

Wireless software stacks, telemetry pipelines, RF simulation tools, and fleet-operation automation for deployed nodes.

Domain

Wireless communications, embedded systems, IoT, and autonomous platforms

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, C/C++/Go/Rust, Linux (systemd, networking stack, SSH), WLAN standards (IEEE 802.11, WFA), cfg80211/nl80211/hostapd/wpa_supplicant, telemetry/data pipelines, networking fundamentals, embedded system design, distributed/networked systems debugging, wireless performance analysis (Wireshark, tracing), hardware/software boundary debugging

Preferred skills

Sub-GHz/802.11ah/mesh networking/LTE/5G stacks, video transport, software-defined radio, signal processing, time-series infrastructure, observability tooling, QoS concepts, data-path optimization algorithms

Technologies

Wireshark, cfg80211, nl80211, hostapd, wpa_supplicant, systemd, SSH, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, cellular, LTE, 5G, sub-GHz, 802.11ah, mesh networking, software-defined radio

Responsibilities

Design and maintain wireless software for edge devices; collect and analyze per-link telemetry for remote diagnosis; integrate and characterize vendor chipsets/drivers/firmware; debug issues across radio/driver/kernel/application layers; collaborate with RF/Hardware/Embedded/Backend teams; build fleet-operation automation; develop RF simulation and deployment-planning tools; support field deployments and bring-up.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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