About Quin
Quin is redefining smart safety with real-time event detection and data-driven response systems that save lives. We embed our proprietary technology into helmets and wearables through B2B partnerships with global brands. With a strong foothold in motorcycling and a strategic focus on cycling and industrial safety, our technology is already trusted by top names across the U.S. and Europe.We are a fast-moving, purpose-driven team building industry-leading technology that brings intelligence into safety gear. Every product we ship has a tangible impact, and every engineer at Quin has the opportunity to shape technology that protects lives.
Why Quin?
- Architect Systems That Save Lives: You won't be building generic IoT platforms, you'll architect the complete technology stack that detects crashes, connects devices, and triggers emergency responses. Your architectural decisions literally determine whether our system works when someone needs help.
- Own the Complete Platform: This is genuine systems architecture. You'll design how hardware talks to firmware, how devices communicate with mobile apps, how data flows to the cloud, how services scale, and how everything integrates seamlessly. True end-to-end ownership.
- Solve Real Technical Challenges: Real-time crash detection at the edge. Ultra-reliable BLE connectivity. Scalable cloud architecture. Offline-first mobile apps. Data synchronization across distributed systems. Security and privacy at every layer. These are hard, interesting problems that require deep technical expertise.
- Technical Leadership with Impact: Lead architecture, mentor engineers across hardware/firmware/mobile/backend teams, drive technical strategy, and see your architectural vision protecting riders worldwide. This is technical leadership that matters.
Mission
Architect and lead the end-to-end IoT platform that seamlessly integrates hardware, firmware, mobile apps, and cloud services into a cohesive, life-saving ecosystem.
About The Role
- We are seeking an IoT Solutions Architect / Engineer with 7–10 years of experience to lead the architecture and integration of our complete IoT platform. This is the most senior technical role focused on systems architecture, you'll be responsible for ensuring all components (hardware, firmware, BLE, mobile apps, cloud backend, data pipelines) work together seamlessly.
- You will define the technical architecture, establish integration patterns, design communication protocols, ensure system reliability and scalability, and drive technical decisions across the organization. You'll work with hardware, firmware, mobile, backend, and ML teams to create a cohesive platform that works flawlessly in life-critical situations.
- This role requires broad technical expertise across the full IoT stack combined with deep knowledge in multiple areas. You should have strong experience with embedded systems, wireless protocols, mobile app architectures, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. You must be able to dive deep into any layer of the stack while maintaining the big-picture architectural vision.
- If you're a systems thinker who loves designing elegant architectures, solving complex integration challenges, and leading technical strategy for products that save lives, this is your opportunity.
What You'll Do
At Quin, this isn't just a job, it's a mission. Here's how you'll make an impact:
- Define Platform Architecture: Architect the complete IoT platform from device to cloud. Design how components communicate, how data flows through the system, how services scale, and how everything integrates reliably. Make fundamental architectural decisions that shape the platform for years.
- Design Communication Protocols: Define BLE protocols between devices and mobile apps, API contracts between mobile and backend, data sync strategies, and message formats. Ensure protocols are efficient, extensible, and robust against failures.
- Establish Integration Patterns: Create patterns and standards for hardware-firmware integration, firmware-mobile communication, mobile-backend sync, and service-to-service communication. Build frameworks that make integration straightforward and reliable.
- Integrate Multi-Sensor Systems: Design conditioning circuits for IMUs, accelerometers, force sensors, and environmental sensors. Ensure accurate signal acquisition, proper filtering, and robust noise immunity in harsh environments.
- Ensure System Reliability: Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, error recovery, and resilience. Architect systems that work reliably even with network failures, device crashes, or unexpected conditions. Safety-critical systems must always work.
- Drive Scalability and Performance: Architect cloud services that scale efficiently from hundreds to millions of devices. Optimize data pipelines, design efficient sync protocols, and ensure low latency for time-critical operations like crash detection and emergency alerts.
- Lead Security and Privacy: Design security architecture including device authentication, encrypted communication, secure data storage, privacy-preserving analytics, and compliance with regulations. Security must be built into every layer.
- Mentor and Lead Engineers: Provide technical guidance to engineers across hardware, firmware, mobile, and backend teams. Conduct architecture reviews, drive design decisions, establish best practices, and elevate technical capabilities across the organization.
- Solve Integration Challenges: Debug complex issues that span multiple layers of the stack. When the device won't connect to the app, when data sync fails, when crash detection doesn't trigger alerts, you diagnose and fix cross-system problems.
- Drive Technical Innovation: Evaluate new technologies, assess their fit for our platform, prototype solutions, and drive adoption of techniques that improve the product. Stay at the forefront of IoT, edge computing, and distributed systems.
- Establish Development Standards: Define coding standards, API design guidelines, testing strategies, deployment processes, and documentation practices. Build technical foundations that enable the team to move fast without breaking things.
- Partner with Product and Leadership: Translate business requirements into technical architecture. Advise on what's possible, what's hard, and what's risky. Influence product roadmap based on technical insights and platform capabilities.
Basic Qualifications
- 7–10 years of professional experience in IoT systems, distributed systems, or full-stack platform development
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
- Deep technical expertise across multiple layers of the IoT stack: embedded systems, wireless protocols, mobile development, backend services, and cloud infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience with BLE protocols, IoT connectivity, and device-to-cloud communication patterns
- Proven experience in architecting and building production IoT platforms or distributed systems that scaled successfully
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including serverless architectures, databases, message queues, and microservices
- Experience with mobile application architectures (iOS and Android) and mobile-backend integration patterns
- Strong knowledge of embedded systems, firmware development, and hardware-software integration
- Experience with data synchronisation, conflict resolution, and offline-first architectures
- Track record of technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural decisions across teams
Good to Have
- Experience in architecting wearable IoT platforms, connected health devices, or safety-critical systems
- Deep expertise in BLE mesh networking, Thread, Zigbee, or other IoT wireless protocols
- Background in real-time systems, edge computing, or embedded ML deployment
- Experience with time-series databases, sensor data pipelines, and real-time analytics platforms
- Knowledge of embedded Linux, RTOS development, or low-level system programming
- Familiarity with safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) and regulatory compliance for safety-critical systems
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration
- Understanding of privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and building privacy-preserving systems
- Published architecture designs, technical blog posts, or conference presentations on IoT systems
- Experience in startup or high-growth environments where you've scaled platforms rapidly
Why You'll Love Working Here
- Architect End-to-End Systems: Design the complete platform from device silicon to cloud services. True systems architecture with broad scope and deep impact.
- Technical Leadership: Lead architecture, mentor engineers, drive technical strategy. This is genuine technical leadership, not management.
- Solve Hard Problems: Real-time edge processing, reliable wireless connectivity, scalable cloud architecture, data sync, security, tackle substantive technical challenges.
- See Global Impact: Your architecture runs on thousands of devices protecting riders worldwide. See your designs enabling crash detection and emergency responses.
- Work Across Stack: Dive into firmware, review mobile code, design backend services, optimise cloud infrastructure. Use your full range of technical skills.
- Fast Decision Making: No bureaucracy, no committees, no endless reviews. Make architectural decisions quickly and see them implemented.
- Influence Direction: Your technical insights directly influence product roadmap, company strategy, and resource allocation. Your voice matters.
- Build Great Systems: Take pride in elegant, robust, well-designed systems. Build architecture that engineers love working with and that scales effortlessly.
Your Impact
Your architecture is the foundation that everything builds upon. Every component interaction you design, every protocol you define, every integration pattern you establish determines whether our system works reliably when someone crashes. Your architectural decisions enable our devices to detect crashes accurately, connect reliably, sync data seamlessly, and trigger emergency responses instantly. You create the technical platform that saves lives at scale.
