Maintenance and enhancement of software frameworks for development.
Key job responsibilities
Lead a team of ~12 firmware engineers in Gdańsk delivering embedded software for Ring and Blink cameras and doorbells, from feature development to sustaining releases of products already in customers' homes.
Own the release train for your products: scope, schedule, OTA rollout decisions, rollback calls, and the quality metrics behind them (device offline rate, live view success, reboots, battery).
Drive the convergence of our device firmware onto a common platform and codebase, and the handover of launched products into sustaining.
Drive AI-native engineering in the team: own the adoption of coding agents and AI review tooling, set the targets (share of changes produced and reviewed with AI, cycle time, defect escape rate) and report progress to leadership.
Hire, develop and retain engineers; set clear expectations, run regular 1:1s and growth conversations, build a bench of senior engineers.
Partner with product, TPM, QA, cloud and hardware teams in Poland and the US; represent the team to senior leadership with clear written status.
About the team
Ring & Blink Firmware in Gdańsk is a 150+ engineer organisation building the firmware for Ring and Blink cameras, doorbells and sync modules sold worldwide. This team owns the firmware platform and the releases for launched products. We value ownership, decisions backed by data, and engineers who operate with AI agents as part of how they build, review and test. The manager is part of that team, works with the same tools, and sets the direction for how far AI takes the team next.
3+ years of engineering team management experience
7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience partnering with product or program management teams
Experience leading embedded software or firmware development for connected consumer devices
Experience in hiring, developing and promoting engineering talent
Experience managing release trains and OTA rollouts for shipped consumer electronics, including sustaining of multiple product lines
Experience with battery-powered, Wi-Fi/BLE camera or video devices and their quality metrics
Experience adopting generative AI developer tooling in a team's workflow and measuring its impact
Experience working with distributed hardware, operations and QA partners across time zones
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Gdansk, POL - 33,200.00 PLN Monthly
