Live Aware Labs is a next generation usability and research lab focused on solutions and services tailored for Geospatial AR dev teams. We enable teams to develop deep insights into live player experiences.
We make it easy for teams to integrate professional usability at all stages of development. The results? Higher quality experiences developed in less time and cost.
Our proprietary Usability Tools, Technologies and Services enable development teams to conduct live, remote, continuous observation of many simultaneous participants as they explore the world through geospatial AR experiences. With our proprietary Live Link technology, it is now possible for teams to “ride along” with their users and experience their point of view as they engage with their product and the world around them.
Our Live Link technology was designed from the ground up as a highly versatile, lightweight, mobile streaming solution that streams real-time video of players' POV (via a wearable camera), their device display, as well as other critical data streams (including biometric feedback, live analytics, geopositional data, etc) across the internet to teams around the globe. With Live Link, AR development teams can observe the live experiences of multiple simultaneous users to quickly understand group dynamics as users interact with the real world and each other.
Live Aware Labs is currently on the hunt for an exceptional Senior Firmware/Embedded Software Engineer to help us level up the performance and feature set of Live Link. Qualified candidates are at home with kernel configuration, writing device drivers, and helping to debug both hardware and software interfaces. An ideal candidate is constantly curious about the state of the art, committed to long term quality, and highly collaborative. Candidates are inclusive and empathetic by nature and are always motivated to support others to achieve beyond their own expectations.
As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you write the core of what makes Live Aware Labs so special. Your code connects people across the world working together toward a common goal. You perform a mix of production and prototyping work to realize the vision of Live Aware Labs. You own technical decisions for broad and diverse areas of work. You help maintain the roadmap of features for Live Aware Labs. As one of the first LAL employees, you are integral to charting the course of the company and imbuing it with a collaborative culture.
Your primary duty is helping to create a reliable and robust product from a bare-bones prototype. Live Link is still in its beta phase and we need a firmware specialist to move it towards production. Your work involves prioritizing and implementing new features as well as maintaining and improving existing ones. You have a passion for learning new skills and approach your work with an apprentice mindset. You are highly motivated by the success of the project and adept at quick, iterative prototypes as well as understanding how to build for the long-term. You strive to achieve the goals of the overall experience through the lens of performance, maintainability, extensibility, and security.
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About Live Aware Labs:
Live Aware Labs is a young company so please pardon our lack of web presence! Currently we are five people working in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Julie and Cindy do user research and in addition to being total data whizzes, they make the hottest Powerpoints around. Eva serves up fresh circuit boards and other hardware accoutrements. Linden is our resident cloud whisperer and coaxes sweet streaming video from the aether. Sean owns the company and hustles for that sweet, sweet business development.
Workplace culture is hugely important at LAL and we all believe in continuing to hire people who are both talented and wonderful to work with. We look for people who are collaborative, ambitious, honest, curious, and inclusive. We prioritize a healthy work-life balance and strive to create an emotionally healthy office environment.
Interested? Send us an email at crew@liveawarelabs.com
Live Aware Labs firmly believes in creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company and qualified candidates will feel strongly about that as well. We also encourage employee growth whenever possible. If this job is exciting to you but feels a little outside your current skillset, please apply anyway!