RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical leadership and architectural ownership for firmware platforms and system-level components used across one or more WHOOP product lines.
- Design, develop, and test embedded firmware in C, contributing hands-on to critical areas while ensuring solutions scale across platforms and product generations.
- Autonomously identify, define, and drive solutions to ambiguous, cross-cutting firmware and system-level problems with long-term departmental impact.
- Influence firmware, hardware, and manufacturing roadmaps by identifying technical risks, opportunities, and strategic investments across multiple quarters.
- Lead the resolution of complex, cross-team issues spanning firmware, hardware, manufacturing, and system integration, including root cause analysis and long-term prevention.
- Define and uphold firmware architecture standards, documentation practices, and design review expectations adopted across the Embedded group.
- Lead code and design reviews across teams, setting the bar for clarity, correctness, maintainability, and long-term quality.
- Define and drive scalable testing, validation, and CI strategies that improve firmware quality and developer velocity across teams.
- Influence hardware design decisions by evaluating components, defining firmware-hardware interfaces, and proactively identifying system-level tradeoffs.
- Drive alignment across Electrical, Signal Processing, Mobile, Manufacturing, and Product teams, resolving ambiguity and ensuring cohesive system design.
- Mentor and sponsor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, multiplying impact by raising the technical bar across teams.
- Identify and drive strategic investments that improve performance, power efficiency, stability, and reliability across firmware platforms.
- Leverage AI and emerging development tools to improve firmware development practices, establishing best practices across the Embedded group.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 8+ years of embedded firmware development experience, including ownership of system-level architecture or platform components across multiple products or generations.
- Expert-level proficiency in C and embedded systems development on 32-bit RISC architectures (e.g., ARM Cortex).
- Strong experience with low-power embedded system design and optimization.
- Experience working with operating systems (OS) and real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Deep understanding of system communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, USART/UART, and BLE.
- Strong experience with electronics debugging tools including oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies, and power measurement equipment.
- Proven experience leading technically ambiguous, cross-team initiatives and influencing technical direction without formal authority.
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals, including reading schematics and hardware specifications.
- Experience with version control using git and modern CI/CD workflows.
- Experience with unit, integration, and system-level testing for embedded systems.
- Experience working on high-volume consumer electronics products preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Recognized technical leader who operates as a force multiplier across teams and consistently drives alignment, execution, and long-term technical direction.
