Manager, Embedded Firmware Delivery

Needham, MA

The Opportunity

This is a working leadership role — you lead the team and you still read the code.

As Manager, Embedded Firmware Delivery, you own day-to-day delivery for SharkNinja's embedded firmware organization: schedule, quality, and scope for the firmware programs and platform work we keep internally. You'll lead a team of Senior Embedded Firmware Developers implementing the designs, carrying enough technical depth to review their code, make day-to-day design calls, and unblock them when something stalls.

You'll report to the Director, Embedded Firmware, as a peer to the Embedded Firmware Architecture manager. That manager owns the standards and architecture applied to the designs; you own implementation and feature delivery against them, and you decide how the team's time gets spent across concurrent programs.

What You'll Own

Team & Delivery Leadership

• Lead, hire, and develop the delivery-focused Senior Embedded Firmware Developers within the US embedded firmware team.
• Delivery commitments for internally developed embedded firmware — schedule, quality, and scope.
• Code review, day-to-day technical direction, and design guidance for the team, with enough hands-on depth to make credible technical calls.
• Workload allocation, sprint planning, and capacity across concurrent programs.

Delivery Execution

• Deliver firmware in the areas retained internally: device control, OTA, and differentiated product features.
• Execute against defined architecture, interface, and HAL standards.
• Ensure firmware integrates cleanly with hardware, cloud services, mobile applications, and user interfaces.
• Enforce engineering standards within the team — feature branches, PR-gated merges with required approvals, ticket-linked commits, unit test coverage, and static analysis on every merge.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with other global firmware leadership on programs spanning multiple sites and on shared platform work.
• Work with the Software TPM on program sizing, schedule commitments, and cross-program dependencies.
• Support Quality on release readiness, defect triage, and gate criteria.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering, Systems, and NPD through bring-up and integration.

Engineering Practice

• Drive adoption of automated testing, CI discipline, and code quality practices within the team.
• Contribute to the reproducibility standard — ensuring internally developed programs meet the same source, toolchain, and build manifest requirements applied to partners.
• Identify and reduce technical debt across internally owned codebases.

What You'll Bring

Experience

• 8+ years of embedded software and firmware engineering.
• 2+ years leading or formally mentoring embedded engineering teams. First-time people leaders with strong technical depth will be considered.
• Hands-on delivery of production firmware for consumer electronics, home appliances, robotics, or related high-volume industries.
• A track record establishing CI/CD, static analysis, and automated test infrastructure for embedded programs.
• Executing against architecture and standards defined elsewhere.
• Working alongside or coordinating with offshore development teams or external development partners.

Technical Expertise

• Embedded C / C++ development on resource-constrained platforms.
• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
• OTA and bootloader software update architecture.
• Device security fundamentals.
• Git-based workflows, CI builds (gcc, CMake, headless), unit testing (Ceedling or equivalent), and static analysis.
• Hardware-software integration, board bring-up, and debug on target hardware.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.