Director of Embedded Software Engineering

The role

This leader will lead the Firmware organization and the embedded software at the core of WHOOP devices. You will set technical and organizational direction, develop engineering managers, and ensure delivery across a roadmap of new products and platform investments.

What you will do

• Lead and scale multiple Firmware teams by hiring and developing engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Set the multi-year strategy for firmware in alignment with product and business priorities.
• Own predictable delivery across new products, platform investments, and sustaining work.
• Raise the firmware development and quality bar through planning, architecture, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Guide system architecture and major technical decisions regarding power, performance, and quality.
• Partner across Hardware, Sensor Intelligence, Algorithms, Mobile, Product, Manufacturing, Quality, and Program Management.
• Establish engineering metrics and adopt tools and AI-enabled practices.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience leading multiple firmware or embedded software teams through engineering managers and senior technical leaders.
• Extensive experience shipping firmware for high-volume, constrained products.
• Deep technical fluency in C/C++, RTOS-based architectures, microcontrollers, device drivers, connectivity, low-power systems, and hardware-software integration.
• Track record of setting firmware architecture and improving development practices.
• Strong communication and leadership skills to align various departments and senior leaders.
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Experience developing battery-constrained wearable products, physiological sensing systems, or other products in which firmware directly affects data accuracy
• Familiarity with embedded security, secure boot, over-the-air updates, device identity, and production provisioning
• Experience scaling engineering organizations in a high-growth environment and working with global suppliers or contract manufacturers

Benefits

• base salary
• generous equity package

Before you apply

• The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
• WHOOP participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.

About the company

WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.