Director of Firmware

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance. WHOOP empowers users to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

As a Director of Firmware at WHOOP, you’ll lead and continue to build a talented Firmware & Embedded team responsible for building the WHOOP strap, a low powered, highly durable device that’s made to continuously monitor users who range from elite athletes to fitness enthusiasts. The ideal candidate will leverage a firmware and/or embedded background to manage an experienced team to success, while acting as a cross functional hub in our start-up like environment.  You will work closely with the Chief Technology Officer to continue to innovate on the WHOOP strap and work on building new and exciting technologies. 

Responsibilities:
  • Organize, manage, and lead Firmware team to success.
  • Recruit awesome engineers and help them achieve great feats. 
  • Own the firmware roadmap by working closely with the Product and other technical teams to define features and specifications based on the company’s vision, user feedback, and market opportunities.  
  • Work collaboratively in a startup environment across high performing technical teams including Hardware, Digital Signal Processing, Product, Data Science, Software, and Marketing to deliver a best in class product to consumers.  You will be the go-to person for all firmware related questions, issues, suggestions, and feedback.
  • Not afraid to roll up your sleeves and directly contribute to the code base if necessary.

Qualifications:
  • Manager or Director level Embedded Firmware professional, ideally from the consumer electronics space, with experience managing talented, experienced engineers. 
  • Solid understanding of embedded systems engineering, ideally with management/leadership in a consumer facing business environment 
  • Experience managing and scaling a world class team.
  • Strong curiosity resulting in constant learning of new things.
  • Strong communication skills to both technical and non-technical team members.
  • Experience with embedded technologies relevant to our Firmware architecture at WHOOP preferred (ARM M4, BLE, etc)

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