Senior Firmware Partner Engineer I

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

As a mission-driven company, Axon is in the exciting position of having identified an abundance of opportunities to Protect Life, and Accelerate Justice for both our customers and the public more broadly. Therefore, we are leveraging Joint Development Manufacturers (JDMs) and other partners to scale our growth and deliver more products, faster, helping to save lives. In this high-visibility, leadership/technical hybrid role, you will lead the technical direction for our firmware development partners, and contribute to ensuring the partners’ success in scaling Axon’s development efforts.

As a Sr. Partner Engineer I, your leadership will span Axon and our partners. On the Axon side, you will be responsible for ensuring the Axon requirements to partners are technically rigorous, clear, and specific, and account for the needs of all adjacent stakeholders in Firmware (FW) success (e.g. hardware, application software). On the partner side, you will ensure that their FW deliverables integrate well into the broader Axon FW ecosystem, and meet Axon’s high bar for quality and security. From a technical contribution perspective, you’ll be responsible for getting JDM programs “across the finish line” by providing the occasional technical “glue” to meld Axon and JDM flows and subsystems. As products go to production, you will work with teams to ensure device provisioning and flashing methods are secure, and that sufficient runtime logging and monitoring metrics are in place to diagnose issues in-field.

This role will focus primarily on the development of 1-2 brand new IoT products focused on Axon’s goal to protect life. It is a hybridization of a (a) Firmware Engineer, (b) Technical Project Manager, (c) Product Manager. Some may see this role as a “Field Application Engineer (FAE)” or “Forward Deployed Engineer”, but in reverse - primarily helping our vendors to be successful in their contributions to Axon. This critical role sits in the Axon Platform Firmware Team and reports to the Partner Engineering Manager. The role will “connect the dots” to ensure that the Axon Platform Firmware mechanisms and expectations are reflected through the JDM vendors.

Firmware development environments primarily include a combination of Embedded Linux and custom Automated Test Systems (ATS).

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

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