Senior WLAN Engineer

As a Senior Firmware Engineer on Plume's Core Engineering team, you will deliver industry-leading innovation for large-scale ISP solutions. You will solve challenging problems across distributed systems, reactive streaming, and stateful services, working with emerging System-On-Chips, network and device drivers, kernels, operating systems, and SDKs like RDK-B and PrplOS. This is a high-impact, customer-facing role based in our Hyderabad, India office.

What you'll do

• Participate in all stages of the software design lifecycle working in multi-disciplinary teams spanning cloud, embedded devices, front-end web and mobile, data, and product
• Interface with customers regularly to understand their problems and solve them across any software layer
• Understand broadband industry standards including TR-369, TR-069, TR-181, Wi-Fi Alliance EasyMesh, EasyConnect, and Wi-Fi 7
• Understand and represent Plume to external organizations such as RDK-B, BBF, PrplOS, and IETF
• Participate in architectural discussions with internal and external stakeholders
• Design and develop high-quality, maintainable code and perform peer code reviews
• Solve challenging scale, integration, and architectural problems
• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications in emulated, physical lab, and customer setups

What you bring

• 8+ years of industry experience writing production-quality firmware code for Wi-Fi and/or networking devices
• High proficiency writing idiomatic C/C++ code
• Thorough understanding of L2/L3 and L4 networking layers and 802.11
• Experience working on Wi-Fi access points and developing on Linux OS, including open-source router platforms such as OpenWRT, RDK, and PrplOS
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, object-oriented programming, and embedded systems
• Fundamental understanding of computer networking, operating systems, and databases
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills

About Plume

Plume is the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers. The company partners with over 400 ISP customers including Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM. Plume delivers services to over 60 million locations globally and has managed over 3 billion devices on its platform, leveraging WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create connected spaces at massive scale.