Staff Embedded Engineer (Global Leadership Role)
About OptiSigns
OptiSigns is a fast-scaling cloud platform powering digital signage for 35,000+ businesses across 100+ countries, with 200,000+ active screens worldwide.
Founded in Houston, Texas in 2016 and now expanding aggressively in Asia and Europe, we help companies transform ordinary screens into powerful, dynamic communication tools. Our Vietnam engineering team is central to our next phase of growth.
Why This Role
This is not a typical engineer role.
We are looking to bring on a Chinese speaking Embedded Android Lead engineer to relocate to Houston TX, US or Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and lead our growing engineering hub. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, with real ownership over both system scalability and team development.r and lead firmware and OS layer of our digital signage platform.
You will be responsible for building and maintaining a custom Android (AOSP-based) system running on Rockchip devices.
This role includes a full relocation package and offers a global career path, including the opportunity to work from our US headquarters as part of our rotation program.
What You’ll Do
- Build and customize Android (AOSP) for embedded devices
- Work with BSP and vendor SDKs (Rockchip)
- Optimize system performance for media playback and multi-display
- Own firmware lifecycle: build, release, maintenance
- Implement OTA update systems
- Work closely with hardware/ODM teams during bring-up
- Integrate drivers, HALs, and system services
- Enable remote diagnostics and debugging