Sydney | Full time | $180K–$250K + Super
We build an intelligent sensing platform that combines hardware, embedded firmware, and computer vision/ML to turn raw sensor data into insight for our customers.
Our platform has just gone live, and we need a hands on Tech Lead / Head of Software to lead the team through the next phase: turning a working product into dependable, rapidly delivered value for clients.
This is a hands on leadership role for a Principal engineer who wants to lead a team from close to the code, not from behind a management desk.
You'll work directly with clients to understand their problems, and lead the team to ship fixes and new capability at a rapid pace.
You'll also sit on the leadership team, feeding delivery realities into company strategy.
What you'll doLead the software team day to day as a hands on tech lead, staying close to the code and setting the pace of delivery
Work directly with clients, translate their problems into engineering priorities, and drive fixes into production quickly
Own the architecture and evolution of the platform as it grows and as client driven changes land
Lead embedded firmware development and platform bring up across multiple hardware targets
Establish release discipline: a reliable CI pipeline, clear release gates,



and automated testing fast enough to support rapid iteration
Partner with the ML team on the model to production path and data pipeline
Mentor engineers, plan delivery with leadership, and balance recent capability against reliability and technical debt
What you'll bring10+ years of software experience, including 3+ years leading or managing a team (around 10 people)
Strong embedded C/C++ on resource constrained MCUs, in production
Proven system architecture, owning the design of a non trivial platform end to end
Bare metal programming (C, C++, Rust, Assembly) and comfort working close to hardware: bring up, debugging, drivers, toolchains
CI/CD build systems and test automation for embedded software
Experience shipping a product in the field (e.g. IoT sensors) and working directly with customers on their problems
Nice to haveEdge CV/ML or inference on embedded targets, STM32/Himax WE2 (or comparable NPU class platforms), cloud/OTA update systems, networking (TCP/IP, MQTT, BLE, IoT Mesh), desktop tooling experience, early stage hardware startup experience
You'll take ownership of a live, working platform at the moment it matters most, with a sound architecture, real client problems to solve, and the autonomy to set technical direction.
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📌 Technical Lead / Head Of Embedded Software (New South Wales)
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