Sophia Lucas

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Senior Embedded Engineer at American Express · Embedded systems · hardware bring-up, embedded Linux

American Express
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
4+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English
Open to work
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Overview

4 years in software engineering, the last 1 at American Express, where I work on the firmware team. Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 26% in two quarters. Before that: Airbnb and ServiceNow. Most at home with ARM Cortex-M and Bluetooth LE.

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Skills
RTOSARM Cortex-Mhardware bring-upembedded LinuxCBluetooth LE
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Target roles
Lead Embedded Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Developer tools, Healthtech
Work mode
Hybrid
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead embedded systems work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

4 years in embedded systems. Strongest at RTOS and hardware bring-up. Open to the right conversation.

San Jose, CA · remote OKembedded linuxhardware bring-uprtos
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Experience

  1. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Dec 2025 - Present
    American Express · 10 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 17 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Grew the firmware team from 3 to 27 engineers.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2023 - Dec 2025
    Airbnb · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Wrote the RTOS service that now handles 34 million requests a day.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Apr 2023
    ServiceNow · 9 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Moved 60% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2017 - 2021

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