Whoop
Staff Applied Machine Learning Scientist
$170K–$230K
Boston, MA · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Develops and deploys production-ready wearable edge algorithms that turn sensor data into real-time physiological insights for WHOOP members.
What you'll do
- Design and improve algorithms for physiological time-series and multimodal sensor data, including evaluation and validation.
- Optimize algorithms for embedded deployment while balancing accuracy, power, memory, latency, and compute constraints.
- Set technical direction and take initiatives from research and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and improvement.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in a related quantitative field.
- 7+ years of experience developing and deploying machine learning, deep learning, and/or signal processing algorithms for complex real-world applications.
- Technical expertise in machine learning and deep learning for time-series and multimodal sensor data, and a strong foundation in digital and statistical signal processing.
- Strong proficiency in Python; experience across the algorithm development lifecycle, including validation, deployment, and continuous improvement.
Nice to have
- Experience with C/C++ and embedded algorithm development.
- Experience with physiological signals, wearable sensors, biomedical sensing, or resource-constrained edge environments.
Pay
$170K – $230K USD base salary
Tools
Python, C/C++
AI focus
Applies machine learning, deep learning, signal processing, and edge AI to wearable sensing and physiological insights; the role also calls for using AI tools in day-to-day work.
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