How do you build a performance optimization system robust enough to prepare a Navy Seal for battle, but with the form factor and design that an elite athlete is comfortable wearing 24 hours a day? At WHOOP, that’s exactly what we think about, day in, day out. Our team is comprised of engineers, designers, data scientists, mathematicians, and physiologists. We are creating a system that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.

Whoop is seeking a dynamic, energetic and talented Firmware Engineer to join our growing firmware team. Our wearable product contains a bare metal style firmware base with extremely low power and high optimization constraints.

Responsibilities:

• General high quality embedded software development
• Support software development such as PC test software written in Python
• Firmware feature ownership
• Contributes to enforcing good quality practices via code reviews etc.
• Releasing FW binaries - maintain process, steps, documentation etc.
• Ownership of some manufacturing test features
• Contribute to FW architecture design
• Contribute to electrical architecture design
• Documentation
• Requirements & specification definition
• Power/performance optimization and algorithm development

Desirable:

• BS or greater in CS, CE, EE or equivalent
• Willingness to be both a team player and a leader
• 7 years of embedded software development
• Excellent interpersonal skills and written communications skills
• Proficient with multiple 8-bit to 32-bit RISC processor architectures such as ARM Cortex series
• Proficient with device driver development
• Proficient in embedded C
• Experience with system communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, USART etc
• Fluency in electrical engineering fundamentals
• Experience with Agile software development practices