Senior Wireless Firmware Engineer, Plume Design
$140-150k
plus bonus, and equity
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Platform for communications service providers
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Platform for communications service providers
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-150k
plus bonus, and equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To keep you in the flow with any experiences you turn on.
Role
Who you are
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in embedded systems, firmware, or driver development
- Proven experience leading complex technical projects end-to-end
- Strong expertise in C/C++
- Deep experience with WiFi driver development at chipset/SoC level
- Strong understanding of Linux kernel and networking stack
- Deep knowledge of IEEE 802.11 MAC and PHY layers
- Experience with OpenWRT, RDK, or OpenSync
- Strong debugging and performance optimization skills
- Strong ownership and leadership mindset
- Ability to solve complex, ambiguous problems
- Experience mentoring engineers
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Passion for building high-performance wireless systems
Desirable
- Experience with Broadcom, Qualcomm, or MediaTek WiFi chipsets
- Experience with mesh networking and large-scale deployments
- Knowledge of MU-MIMO, OFDMA, beamforming, WiFi 7
- Python or scripting for automation
- Familiarity with cloud-managed networking systems
What the job involves
- Plume’s Core Engineering team is looking for a Senior Wireless Firmware Engineer with deep expertise in WiFi driver development to lead innovation for large-scale WiFi and broadband solutions
- You will work across embedded firmware, wireless drivers, and system-level software to enable high-performance, scalable, and reliable WiFi experiences
- This is a high-impact senior role where you will lead complex initiatives in wireless networking, performance optimization, and large-scale deployments, while mentoring other engineers and influencing system architecture
- Lead design and development of WiFi firmware and driver architecture for next-generation wireless platforms
- Own critical components of the WiFi stack and drive technical direction across projects
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across firmware and driver domains
- Design, develop, and optimize WiFi firmware and low-level wireless drivers
- Work on IEEE 802.11 stack (WiFi 4/5/6/6E/7), including MAC/PHY layers
- Debug and optimize WiFi drivers with chipset/SoC vendors
- Analyze network behavior and improve performance (throughput, latency, reliability)
- Participate in full software lifecycle: design, development, testing, deployment, and support
- Troubleshoot complex system-level issues across firmware, drivers, and networking stacks
Our take
Smart devices within the home have become the norm, but Plume Design believes that this influx of revolutionary home tech is only as smart as the networks that support them. With many issues concerning smart devices, treatment is reliant on generic WiFi, unsafe networks, and expensive analysis. Plume Design remedies this with cloud-controlled internet platforms that are defined by the needs of the devices that use them.
With home office setups now the norm, Plume has fast become a necessary service for many small businesses and casual users. Its smart Wi-Fi networks are ground-level products upon which Plume offers more smart home services and it now has more than a billion devices on its network.
With substantial funding behind it, Plume’s post-COVID surge in business was one thing, but keeping up the momentum throughout the 2020s is quite another. Time will tell if the company can continue on its upward trajectory. But as long as it keeps its networks fresh (as it did in 2022 through its partnership with OpenSync software agent SamKnows), it shouldn’t have a problem as it scales up.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2021
$300m
LATE VC
Feb 2021
$270m
SERIES E
Total funding: $697.4m
Company benefits
- Lifetime Plume HomePass membership
- Allowance for home-office set up
- Monthly data or phone allowance
- Plume employee referral bonus program
- Public transportation reimbursement
- Retirement savings contributions
- Employee discounts
- Patent submission support and incentive award program
- Competitive and comprehensive health insurance coverage and extended benefits such as dental, vision, life, short/long-term disability insurance, and FSA/HSA (detailed coverage may vary by location)
- Employee assistance program
- Generous vacation policy to ensure time to recharge (open paid time off or generous accrued paid time off based on location)
- Health and wellness reimbursement and a Premium Strava membership
- Holistic health platform through Walking on Earth
- Generous parental leave policy
- Online and in-person team-building events
- PlumeStrong - our corporate social responsibility program designed to apply our resources (time, brainpower, product, money) for good
- Remote/flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Immigration support
Company HQ
Downtown North, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Sri Nathan
(Co-Founder & Vice President of Major Accounts)Previously Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development at Menara Networks, Vice President and Executive Consultant at Schema, and CEO at Liwana Technologies and Jasmine Networks.
Adam Hotchkiss
(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)Previously Vice President of Menara Networks, Sales at ADVA Optical Networking, Product Line Management at Qtera / Nortel and Product Manager at Fujitsu Network Communications.
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