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Arlo Technologies, Inc.

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🔐 Security

🔧 Hardware

Security • Hardware

Arlo Technologies, Inc. is a company specializing in home security products, including high-resolution cameras and video doorbells. These products are designed to provide peace of mind by monitoring indoor and outdoor spaces, even in challenging lighting conditions. Arlo offers a range of security cameras with features such as 4K and 2K video quality, wireless functionality, and subscription-based security services. Their product lineup includes the Ultra 2, Pro 5, Essential series, and various new wireless video doorbells. Arlo Technologies aims to make security accessible and shareable with their Refer a Friend program and promotes enhanced protection through partnership with Verisure for professionally monitored alarms.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, debug, and maintain embedded firmware for IoT and video streaming products. • Own major firmware components and features throughout the product development lifecycle, from design to production. • Collaborate with Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, QA, and ODM partners to ensure successful system integration and product delivery. • Develop and integrate device drivers, communication protocols, RTOS components, and platform firmware. • Troubleshoot and resolve complex firmware, hardware, and system-level issues. • Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, power consumption, and system reliability. • Review board schematics, component datasheets, and hardware documentation to support firmware development and debugging. • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and root-cause analysis to improve software quality. • Evaluate new SoCs, image sensors, wireless modules, and other hardware components for future product development. • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous process improvements.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus, or equivalent industry experience. • 7+ years of experience in embedded firmware development, preferably with IoT, networking, or video streaming products. • Strong programming skills in Embedded C and C++. • Experience developing software on RTOS and Embedded Linux platforms. • Solid understanding of real-time multimedia applications, including video/audio processing, compression, and streaming technologies (H.264/H.265). • Experience with multithreaded and multitasking embedded software development. • Experience developing and debugging embedded device drivers. • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills in embedded systems. • Experience optimizing embedded software for performance and resource utilization. • Working knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RTP, RTSP, SIP and WebRTC. • Experience with wireless communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, BLE, and LTE. • Familiarity with IoT communication architectures and cloud-connected devices. • Hands-on experience using hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers. • Experience using source control systems such as Git. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance bonus • Equity • Full range of benefits