Senior Partner Engineer I

As a mission-driven company, Axon is in the exciting position of having identified an abundance of opportunities to Protect Life, and Accelerate 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 that helps save lives. In this high-visibility, leadership/technical hybrid role, you will lead in the technical direction setting 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 across 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 & JDM flows 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 like 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 reciprocated through the JDM vendors. Firmware development environments primarily include a combination of Embedded Linux and custom Automated Test Systems (ATS).