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Redwood City, CA | Full time | ONSITE | http://bravahome.com http://bravahome.com tldr; - We need an embedded Linux engineer for our groundbreaking kitchen dev

Redwood City, CA | Full time | ONSITE | http://bravahome.com http://bravahome.com tldr; - We need an embedded Linux engineer for our groundbreaking kitchen device. Brava has spent the last few years building a better way to cook food, by combining boundary-defying power with unprecedented precision and automation. We have an embedded Linux-powered user interface running state-of-the-art computer vision and control algorithms developed by our team of in-house physicists, culinary scientists and computer-vision researchers. We’ve recently raised a Series B round and are gearing up for launch. We need an embedded Linux engineer to join our embedded team who is comfortable with developing for a multicore ARM system-on-chip; who can consider security, reliability and performance while working closely with computer-vision and physics researchers to port and optimize applied algorithms. Other development areas include bootloader tweaks, software update features and logging, telemetry and userspace drivers, collaborating with embedded and application engineers. Kernel hacking skills not required but are certainly a plus. You would be joining Brava's amazing team of embedded Linux, application and backend engineers, so collaboration and communication skills are important. Learn more about the position on our job description page. [0] You can email me directly at jd+jobs@bravahome.com [0] http://bravahome.com/embedded-developer-linux/ http://bravahome.com/embedded-developer-linux/

pfarnsworth 9y ago
I see one of the founders of Playdom is a co-founder here. One of the criticisms I heard about Playdom is that they completely fucked over early employees with very few options. For example, when Playdom exited for $600M, employees in the 30-ish range only made about $30,000 in Disney stock, whereas the founders made $100M+. Is this true and would this be the same case with Brava as well?
- jconley 9y ago
  I don't know anything about that situation but I, and at least a half dozen others here, were Playdom/Disney employees. I feel I did just fine in the Disney acquisition.
  - pfarnsworth 9y ago
    Okay thanks for the answer. I know two people who were early employees at Playdom and they both got fucked, and they both said that most people left with a disproportionately small exit, unlike companies like Facebook or Google that were more generous with their employee stock options. This would be my biggest concern with a company like Brava so caveat emptor.
    - nl 9y ago
      I don't know anything about this company, but I'd note there is a huge (huge!) difference between a 600M exit and floating on a public market. That's the risk with options: unless you are one of the first 5 employee's it is rarely a life changing amount of money, even in a decent exit.
      - jconley 9y ago
        As a fun aside, Disney stock has roughly tripled since the acquisition in 2010.... https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADIS&ei=jrzSWcCRD8ihjAHk3KvgDA https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADIS&ei=jrzSWcCRD...

pfarnsworth 9y ago

I see one of the founders of Playdom is a co-founder here. One of the criticisms I heard about Playdom is that they completely fucked over early employees with very few options. For example, when Playdom exited for $600M, employees in the 30-ish range only made about $30,000 in Disney stock, whereas the founders made $100M+. Is this true and would this be the same case with Brava as well?

jconley 9y ago
I don't know anything about that situation but I, and at least a half dozen others here, were Playdom/Disney employees. I feel I did just fine in the Disney acquisition.
- pfarnsworth 9y ago
  Okay thanks for the answer. I know two people who were early employees at Playdom and they both got fucked, and they both said that most people left with a disproportionately small exit, unlike companies like Facebook or Google that were more generous with their employee stock options. This would be my biggest concern with a company like Brava so caveat emptor.
  - nl 9y ago
    I don't know anything about this company, but I'd note there is a huge (huge!) difference between a 600M exit and floating on a public market. That's the risk with options: unless you are one of the first 5 employee's it is rarely a life changing amount of money, even in a decent exit.
    - jconley 9y ago
      As a fun aside, Disney stock has roughly tripled since the acquisition in 2010.... https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADIS&ei=jrzSWcCRD8ihjAHk3KvgDA https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ADIS&ei=jrzSWcCRD...