About Signify

Through bold discovery and cutting-edge innovation, we lead an industry that is vital for the future of our planet: lighting. Through our leadership in connected lighting and the Internet of Things, we're breaking new ground in data analytics, AI, and smart solutions for homes, offices, cities, and beyond.

At Signify, you can shape tomorrow by building on our incredible 125+ year legacy while working toward even bolder sustainability goals. Our culture of continuous learning, creativity, and commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers you to grow your skills and career.

Join us, and together, we’ll transform our industry, making a lasting difference for brighter lives and a better world.

More about the role

This is an exciting job opportunity for you as a Lead Development Engineer in Atlanta, Georgia with Cooper Lighting responsible for architecture documentation and for overseeing the technical review processes and obtaining technical approvals by the relevant technical bodies within Cooper Lighting Solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Cybersecurity Team and ensure that security and quality assurance best practices are followed throughout the entire software development life cycle.

• Responsible for utilizing industry standards and best practices to create and validate secured software architectures.

• Work within standard protocols to design usage in our products and support the intended functionality.

• Document and review these protocol decisions including coding proof of concept and assessment code and provide training and support for the developers to use them.

• Oversee the adoption of best-in-class software engineering practices, frameworks, and tools.

• Provide guidance and feedback to other software developers.

• Coordinate with the development team to ensure the infrastructure is in place and as per project need.

• Guide the design of gateway application solutions, interfaces, and protocols within the broader application ecosystem.

• Plan the technical architecture analysis, design for projects, architect the integration across application teams, and infrastructure, as well as coordinate with the development team to ensure the infrastructure is in place and that it meets project needs.

• Work closely with our product managers, marketing managers and software developers to provide guidance and recommendations regarding the design of applications, hardware, network products, and security requirements while using approved integration methods.

• Work with end users, customers, system integrators and regional marketing leaders to understand their goals and pain points, translate into requirements, and develop products using machine learning, data visualizations and decision support systems to help stakeholders meet their goals.

What you’ll need— Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies

While we value and appreciate all applicants, we believe that the following experience and skills will be needed to shine brightly in this job opening:

• ​Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, related Engineering disciplines, or a closely related field and 5+ years of related experience required.

• 3+ years of experience must include:

  • Light Engine Algorithm;

  • Common API (CAPI definition);

  • End-to-end system architecture, product interfaces and software design;

  • JSON Based Object modelling for product interface;

  • Lighting Gateway Architecture of Connected Lighting;

  • Wireless and Wired protocols communication protocol for connected lighting which include proprietary protocol or proprietary extension of standard protocols, ZigBee, DALI, ebus, RESTFul APIs, WebSocket, MQTT, LightLEEDer, DMX, KiNet;

  • Cyber Security Standard, Algorithm, Code Signing and tools;

  • Yocto Project based build system with ownership of meta-oem layer.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship needs

Salary: $166,134 - $204,275

Benefits Overview: Company subsidized benefits plan offerings that include Medical, Health Savings Account, Dental, 401K retirement plan with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays/personal days, tuition reimbursement and products discounts. Ability to purchase supplemental benefits that include supplemental life insurance, dependent life insurance, vision insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment insurance, health care flexible spending account and dependent care flexible spending account See #SignifyLife through the eyes of our employees!

Everything we’ll do for you

You can grow a lasting career here. We’ll encourage you, support you, and challenge you. We’ll help you learn and progress in a way that’s right for you, with coaching and mentoring along the way. We’ll listen to you too, because we see and value every one of our 27,000+ people. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace fosters creativity, innovation, and a full spectrum of bright ideas. With a global workforce present in 70+ countries, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, helping us all achieve more together.

Come join us, and together we can light up the future.