Whoop
Director of Embedded Software Engineering
$220K–$245K
Boston, MA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Leads WHOOP’s Firmware organization, setting technical strategy and guiding teams that build and maintain firmware for wearable devices.
What you'll do
- Lead and scale multiple Firmware teams, developing managers and senior technical leaders.
- Set firmware strategy and ensure predictable delivery across new products, platform investments, and sustaining work.
- Improve architecture, development quality, testing, release practices, and cross-functional product delivery.
What they ask for
- 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 setting firmware architecture and improving development practices, including planning, design reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and quality measurement.
Nice to have
- Experience developing battery-constrained wearable products, physiological sensing systems, or products where firmware affects data accuracy.
- Familiarity with embedded security, secure boot, over-the-air updates, device identity, and production provisioning; scaling organizations in high-growth environments or working with global suppliers or contract manufacturers.
Pay
$220,000-$245,000 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, RTOS-based architectures, microcontrollers, device drivers, connectivity, CI/CD
AI focus
Adopt tools and AI-enabled practices that improve quality and productivity.
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