Franziska Neumann

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Senior Engineering Manager at Saffron Works · Embedded systems · Bluetooth LE, RTOS

Saffron Works
Berlin, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
13+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, German
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Overview

I've spent 16 years on embedded systems - first at Microsoft, now at Saffron Works. Grew the firmware team from 5 to 15 engineers. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Novartis and H&M Group. Most at home with C and embedded Linux. Plant-based cook and baker.

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Skills
ARM Cortex-MCembedded LinuxBluetooth LERTOS
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Hiring a senior frontend engineer for the firmware team - Berlin or remote

Role
Senior frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Compensation
$167k-$199k + equity
Team
Firmware, 12 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with C Production experience with embedded Linux Good judgment about what not to build
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp €88k-€117k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Berlin, Germany · remote OKbluetooth leembedded linuxc
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Saffron Works · 3 yr · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Wrote the RTOS service that now handles 36 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 39 minutes to under 3.
    • Moved 63% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
    Novartis · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Wrote the Bluetooth LE service that now handles 33 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 706ms to 121ms.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
    H&M Group · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Grew the firmware team from 3 to 28 engineers.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
    Zalando · 1 yr 4 mo · Contract · Berlin, Germany
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 303ms to 92ms.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
  5. Embedded Engineer
    Aug 2013 - Apr 2016
    Microsoft · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Berlin, Germany
    • Shipped 25 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 29% in two quarters.

Projects

Embedded systems benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing embedded Linux and RTOS on real workloads.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2007 - 2010

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