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There's room to shape both product capabilities and the tools that help a small team build them well.\nYou will\nDeliver complete features spanning components, such as recording configuration, session metadata, and end-to-end recording integrity.\n\nCollaborate with embedded, desktop, and cloud engineers to design clear interfaces and cohesive workflows.\n\nBuild shared libraries, simulators, replay tools, and development utilities that make the product easier to build and test.\n\nSolve system-wide design challenges in state, data flow, performance, and reliability.\n\nTurn open-ended ideas into tractable implementation steps, using prototypes and feedback to explore the design.\n\nImprove development and release workflows, including thoughtful use of agentic tooling, while contributing directly to product functionality.\n\nYou are\nAn engineer with a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, and at least five years of relevant professional experience.\n\nExperienced shipping substantial software, with depth in at least one area such as systems, desktop applications, backend services, or data infrastructure.\n\nComfortable working across component boundaries and learning an unfamiliar codebase or technology.\n\nExperienced designing APIs, reasoning about data and state across distributed systems, and writing tests that exercise meaningful behavior.\n\nAble to break an ambiguous problem into manageable pieces and explain the tradeoffs behind your approach.\n\nMotivated by understanding how a whole product works, with the judgment to seek specialist input when it matters.\n\nSomeone who enjoys moving between focused implementation and collaborative design.\n\nYou might also\nHave experience with modern C++, Python, Qt/QML, embedded Linux, or cloud services, or bring complementary systems and application experience with Rust, Go, or TypeScript.\n\nHave connected services through gRPC, Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), REST APIs, WebSockets, or messaging systems such as MQTT, DDS, or ZeroMQ.\n\nHave worked on products combining physical hardware and software.\n\nKnow scientific computing or data-intensive applications, including NumPy, SciPy, pandas, HDF5, Zarr, or relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.\n\nHave built integration tests, hardware simulators, or developer tooling with pytest, GoogleTest, Catch2, CMake, or Docker.\n\nHave explored AI-assisted development and agentic workflows, or built continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.\n\nHave connected products to cloud services on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, or helped a small team bring a new product to users.\n\nWe're looking for a strong foundation and the ability to grow. 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