[Remote] Lead Engineer - Hardware Platform (Camera Cloud & Edge)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hudl is a company that builds great teams and supports the lifelong impact of sports. They are seeking a Lead Engineer to own a core technical system of their camera platform, focusing on automatic capture, device connectivity, video pipelines, and fleet management.ResponsibilitiesOwn a system end-to-end. Define and deliver the technical roadmap for a multi-phase area, refining as it evolves and resolving cross-group dependencies before they become blockersPrevent fires, not just fight them. Preemptively identify and resolve technical risks. When incidents do hit, you drive urgency and own resolution within your domainProactively make the system better. You see operational pain and tech debt as design feedback. Build the tooling, libraries, and runbooks that make it go away for everyoneRaise the bar. Through code reviews, design reviews, and mentorship, you set the standard for quality and level up the engineers around youShip reliably at scale. You roll out major features with monitoring, telemetry, and failure domains understood up front as a complete systemThink in terms of process and systems. You look beyond shipping code to iterate on team workflows and improve processes to drive better outcomesSkillsAutonomous systems ownership. You've owned a production technical system end-to-end — set its direction, delivered against a multi-month roadmap, and made independent calls under open-ended requirementsDistributed systems depth. You understand why systems break at scale, not just how to patch them. State, consistency, failure modes, and unreliable networks are familiar territoryHardware or IoT (Internet of Things) experience. You've built software that talks to physical devices — cameras, sensors, embedded systems — and you respect the gap between cloud assumptions and hardware realityOperational ownership. You've led production incident response and you own the reliability of what you ship — monitoring, runbooks, and toil reduction are part of how you work, not someone else's jobYou lift the team. You set the quality bar through reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and have driven cross-group initiatives that needed influence without authorityAI-augmented development. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar used as a force multiplier — with the judgment to evaluate output quality, not just generate it. You look at this new domain as more than a code generator, and understand the possibilities of this unlocking better autonomy, problem solving, and the way we all work togetherExperience being a change agent. You come into teams and systems with the goal of understanding the state of the world, while constantly looking for ways to move the ball forward and leaving things better than you found itExperience in AWS IoT Core. Device communication or fleet monitoring at scale is a plusExperience using Video pipeline tools. GStreamer, HLS, WebRTC, or similar streaming and video technologiesOur stack. .NET Core, Python, MongoDB/DocDB, Redis, and RabbitMQField hardware support. Software running on real-world hardware — firmware updates, remote diagnostics, connectivity triageBenefitsFlexible vacation timeCompany-wide holidays and timeout (meeting-free) daysRemote work optionsTons of resources and opportunities to keep growingTech stack and hardware to do your best workEmployee Assistance ProgramEmployee resource groupsFitness partner PeerfitMultiple plans to pick from to ensure you’ll have the coverage you (and your dependents) want, including vision, dental, fertility healthcare and family forming benefitsMatch up to 4% of your own contribution to your 401(K)Long-term incentive (LTI) awardBonuses awarded are based on individual and company performance paid at Hudl's discretionCompany OverviewHudl is a software platform that provides video analysis and coaching tools for sports teams. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.hudl.com.Company H1B SponsorshipHudl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 4 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.