Lead Software Engineer

**About the Role**

The Lead Software Engineer is a senior technical contributor and customer\-facing engineering leader responsible for the architecture, design, development, delivery, and support of embedded firmware and system software for custom hardware platforms. This working lead position combines hands\-on coding, debugging, testing, and hardware bring\-up with technical leadership and direct customer engagement.

The role translates customer needs into reliable, maintainable software solutions and provides technical direction to team members across the full product lifecycle.

**What You Will Do**

· Lead the architecture, design, development, testing, and maintenance of embedded firmware and system software for custom hardware platforms.

· Use modern development, automation, and AI\-assisted engineering tools responsibly to improve delivery speed, code quality, test coverage, documentation, and debugging effectiveness.

· Be the lead voice actively involved in implementation by writing, reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing production\-quality embedded software for the software team.

· Serve as a primary software technical interface for customers during requirements discussions, design reviews, project updates, troubleshooting, and solution development.

· Translate customer business needs, use cases, and application requirements into practical software architectures, technical designs, estimates, and feature implementations.

· Create and clearly articulate software architectures from high\-level product designs, including key interfaces, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and implementation plans.

· Lead technical design reviews and guide software decisions so solutions are scalable, testable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with customer and product requirements.

· Take ownership of critical software components and deliver complete solutions within agreed schedules and engineering\-hour estimates.

· Lead root\-cause analysis and resolution of complex product, integration, field, and customer issues while clearly communicating impact, status, approach, and expected effort.

· Support new product introduction, board bring\-up, system integration, verification, validation, manufacturing readiness, deployment, and post\-release support.

· Work closely with electrical engineering and QA to define interfaces, test strategies, acceptance criteria, diagnostics, and defect\-resolution plans.

· Establish and reinforce software development best practices, coding standards, architecture documentation, peer review, configuration management, and verification processes.

· Provide day\-to\-day technical guidance and mentorship to software engineers and global team members while promoting clear ownership and timely, high\-quality delivery.

· Communicate proactively with customers and internal stakeholders, identify design gaps and risks early, and drive issues to resolution.

**What We Are Looking For**

· Demonstrated experience designing and developing touch screen based customer facing software, embedded firmware or system software for custom electronic products and hardware platforms.

· Background and interest in using AI tools as a primary part of executing and improving daily work and planning.

· Strong hands\-on proficiency in embedded software development, debugging, testing, code review, and maintenance using languages and tools appropriate to the product environment.

· Ability to work close to the hardware and diagnose issues across firmware, software, electronics, communications, timing, interfaces, and system\-integration boundaries.

· Experience defining software architecture, decomposing requirements, producing technical designs, estimating effort, and leading implementation from concept through release.

· Strong customer\-facing communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts, guide design discussions, clarify tradeoffs, respond to concerns, and build confidence with technical and non\-technical stakeholders.

· Proven ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive ambiguous or complex problems toward a verified resolution.

· Ability to lead through technical influence, provide constructive feedback, mentor engineers, and coordinate effectively with U. S. and international engineering teams.

· Experience collaborating with electrical engineering, QA, manufacturing, product management, and project management throughout the embedded product lifecycle.

· Strong working knowledge of maintainable design, source control, peer review, defect tracking, automated or structured testing, documentation, and release discipline.

· Ability to prioritize competing technical and customer needs while delivering on time and within estimated engineering effort.

· Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Why Join NTX Embedded

· Direct influence on customer\-facing embedded products used in demanding industrial and commercial environments.

· Meaningful ownership of software architecture, implementation, customer solutions, and product outcomes.

· Close collaboration with customers, company leadership, and global engineering, quality, manufacturing, and operations teams.

· Opportunity to improve embedded software practices, technical leadership, development automation, and AI\-assisted engineering across NTX programs.

**Location and Work Environment**

This is an on\-site position in Carrollton, Texas, in a customer\-facing product\-development environment.

*NTX Embedded is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law. Candidates who require an accommodation to apply may contact operations@ntxembedded.

com. *

Pay: $100,000\. 00 \- $130,000\. 00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) 4% Match
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays

Work Location: In person