Staff Embedded Engineer (NPI Tech Lead)

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