Lead Engineer - Hardware Platform (Camera Cloud & Edge)

At Hudl, we build great teams. We hire the best of the best to ensure you’re working with people you can constantly learn from. You’re trusted to get your work done your way while testing the limits of what’s possible and what’s next. We work hard to provide a culture where everyone feels supported, and our employees feel it—their votes helped us become one of Newsweek's Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces . We think of ourselves as the team behind the team, supporting the lifelong impact sports can have: the lessons in teamwork and dedication; the influence of inspiring coaches; and the opportunities to reach new heights. That’s why we help teams from all over the world see their game differently. Our products make it easier for coaches and athletes at any level to capture video, analyze data, share highlights and more. Ready to join us? Your Role We develop the software powering ~10,000 smart cameras deployed on sports fields worldwide. These aren't isolated web services; they are complex distributed systems that must stay in sync with physical hardware across unreliable networks in unpredictable conditions. We're hiring a Lead Engineer to autonomously own a core technical system of our camera platform—covering automatic capture, device connectivity, video pipelines, and fleet management. You will set the technical direction and deliver on a 6–12 month roadmap, navigating ambiguity to become the key technical anchor for the squad. You will partner closely with engineering and product leadership, understanding the 'why' behind our decisions to empower the team. You will be trusted with critical components of Hudl’s core foundation, ensuring we consistently deliver value for our stakeholders and customers. As a Lead Engineer, you'll: Own 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 blockers. Prevent fires, not just fight them. Preemptively identify and resolve technical risks. When incidents do hit, you drive urgency and own resolution within your domain. Proactively 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 everyone. Raise the bar. Through code reviews, design reviews, and mentorship, you set the standard for quality and level up the engineers around you. Ship reliably at scale. You roll out major features with monitoring, telemetry, and failure domains understood up front as a complete system. Think in terms of process and systems. You look beyond shipping code to iterate on team workflows and improve processes to drive better outcomes. Our priority is to hire someone for this role who lives near our office in Lincoln, NE, but we're also open to remote candidates who live in the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY. Must-Haves Autonomous 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 requirements. Distributed systems depth. You understand why systems break at scale, not just how to patch them. State, consistency, failure modes, and unreliable networks are familiar territory. Hardware 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 reality. Operational 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 job. You lift the team. You set the quality bar through reviews, mentor less-experienced engineers, and have driven cross-group initiatives that needed influence without authority. AI-augmented de