Sr. Staff/ Principal Software Engineer - Building Automation Systems
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.3 days ago
Kirkland, WA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture for software, embedded firmware, device protocols, cloud services, data pipelines, and user applications.
- Define standards for reliability, security, scalability, and maintainability across the platform.
- Lead innovation in real-time control, sensor fusion, energy optimization, and building automation logic.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing software engineering organization.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across embedded, cloud, and application engineering teams.
- Oversee mission-critical firmware for building automation controllers, sensors, and power modules.
- Drive automated testing, observability, performance monitoring, and reliable engineering delivery.
- Coordinate integration across platform components, internal and external teams, and third-party interfaces.
- Partner with hardware, firmware, systems engineering, product, QA, manufacturing, and field engineering teams.
- Translate customer needs, building automation standards, and regulatory constraints into software solutions.
- Support customer engagements, technical deep dives, and strategic partnerships.
- Lead cybersecurity, data integrity, secure boot, encrypted communication, OTA update security, compliance, fault tolerance, and platform robustness efforts.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a senior technical leadership role.
- Experience building and scaling complex multilayer platforms spanning software, embedded systems, cloud, and applications.
- Strong background in embedded systems, real-time firmware, IoT connectivity, and device-to-cloud architectures.
- Expertise with modern cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Azure and scalable backend design.
- Experience with building automation communication protocols including BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, BLE, or Zigbee.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and deliver high-reliability systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred experience in building automation, industrial controls, energy management, or IoT device ecosystems.
- Preferred familiarity with power electronics, sensor systems, or hardware-software co-design.
- Preferred experience with OTA update systems, device provisioning, and secure embedded architectures.
- Master’s degree in engineering or a related discipline is preferred.
- Prior leadership in high-growth or hardware-centric technology companies is preferred.
Benefits
- Health care, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- Certain positions may be eligible for stock compensation.
- The target hiring range is $170,000–$220,000 annually.
- Monolithic Power Systems is an equal opportunity employer.
About Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.
Monolithic Power Systems designs and sells analog and mixed-signal power-management semiconductors—such as DC-DC converters, PMICs, power modules, motor and LED drivers, and battery-management ICs—used by OEMs in industrial, telecom infrastructure, cloud/datacenter, automotive, and consumer devices. The company monetizes through chip and module sales, plus evaluation hardware with supporting software and reference designs. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ.