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Salary: USD 198,900 - 245,700 / annual
Bevi is a venture-backed IoT beverage technology company on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. The company has raised over $160M, serves thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland, and has saved over 1 billion bottles from waste. Bevi is now seeking a Director of Embedded Engineering to lead the team building the electronics and firmware at the heart of every Bevi machine.
In this role, you will own and manage electrical and firmware engineers who design, bring up, and sustain products. You'll be responsible for the embedded system architecture across Bevi's product portfolio—from multi-board electrical designs and single-board computer platforms to microcontroller firmware and the interfaces that tie them together. This is a technical and people leadership role in equal measure.
Your responsibilities span four key areas:
**Embedded Architecture & Technical Direction**: Own the embedded system architecture, set the technical roadmap for platform consolidation and next-generation compute boards, make tradeoff calls on reliability, cost, component availability, and speed of development, and stay hands-on enough to review schematics, layouts, and firmware architecture.
**New Product Development & Sustaining**: Lead electrical and firmware execution on new product programs from concept through production release, own the health of embedded systems in the field (firmware releases, fleet diagnostics, remote management), drive component lifecycle management and second sourcing, and partner with Quality and Manufacturing on test strategy and end-of-line testing.
**Team Leadership**: Manage and grow a team of Electrical and Firmware Engineers, hire and develop engineers on technical depth and career growth, and build clear ownership and documentation so critical systems never depend on a single person.
**Cross-Functional & Partner Leadership**: Work with Mechanical, Software, and Systems Engineering to define system requirements, manage external design partners and contract manufacturers, represent embedded in program and design reviews, own embedded regulatory and compliance readiness (UL, FCC, CE/UKCA, EMC), and establish engineering standards for schematic reviews, firmware code reviews, version control, and documentation.
You will report to the VP of Engineering and sit on the engineering leadership team, operating in close partnership with multiple disciplines and external partners. As Bevi's product portfolio grows, there is room for this role to grow with it.
**Requirements**:
- BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; MS is a plus
- 10+ years of embedded hardware and firmware experience, with 5+ years leading and growing teams that include both electrical and firmware engineers
- Track record of taking connected electromechanical products from prototype through production and sustaining them in the field at scale
- Experience taking electronics into high-volume production with overseas contract manufacturers, including DFM/DFT, NPI transfer, PCBA yield and quality issues, and on-site support at the CM
- Strong technical depth in board-level electrical design (mixed-signal, power, motor and actuator drive, sensor interfacing) and in embedded C/C++ on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Experience with embedded Linux or Android (AOSP) platforms on SBC or SoM-based designs
- Hands-on familiarity with communication interfaces and protocols such as UART, I2C, SPI, USB, CAN, Ethernet, and wireless (WiFi, LTE, BLE)
- Experience bringing products through regulatory certification (UL, FCC, CE/UKCA, EMC) and supporting international market entry
- Strong communicator who can hold their own in design reviews and explain risk and tradeoffs clearly to executives
- Experience in food and beverage equipment, appliances, or other regulated consumer hardware is a plus
- Experience working in rapidly growing or scaling companies is a plus
- Ability to be in the office 3+ days per week
