Inspiren
Embedded Software Leader
$220K–$280K
Remote, United States +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Apr 2, 2026
- Location
- Remote, United States
Remote, Canada
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years in embedded, firmware, edge, or device software, with 2+ years leading a software team.
About the job
Leads the embedded software team responsible for the application layer, update systems, and reliability of Inspiren’s connected devices deployed in senior living communities.
What you'll do
- Define fleet reliability measures and lead telemetry, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Own OTA releases, staged rollouts, health checks, rollback, and embedded Linux and MCU application software.
- Build and manage the embedded software team and coordinate with Hardware, Firmware, and the JDM partner.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in embedded, firmware, edge, or device software, with 2+ years leading a software team.
- Experience hiring, building, and managing embedded or device software engineering teams.
- Production fleet experience owning OTA, fleet health, and availability for thousands of connected devices.
- Hands-on experience shipping and sustaining embedded Linux applications on production hardware, including Yocto or equivalent, systemd, on-device containers, connectivity, and update clients.
Nice to have
- Experience across hardware/firmware interfaces, MCU applications, fleet telemetry, or regulated and high-stakes environments.
- On-device ML runtime integration, NPI handoff experience, or—at Director level—leading multiple teams or managers and owning a multi-quarter hiring plan.
Pay
$220K – $280K (base salary; posting labels it “Compensation,” without specifying base salary or total pay)
Tools
Yocto, systemd, LoRaWAN, BLE, NVIDIA Jetson, MediaTek NPU
AI focus
Apply AI to engineering workflows, including generated test harnesses, fleet log triage, regression analysis, and code review augmentation; integrate on-device ML runtimes as a nice-to-have.
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