Manager, Embedded Firmware Delivery

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SharkNinjais a global product design and technology company with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positivelyimpactpeoples lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted global brands Shark and Ninja the company has a proventrack recordof bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowedSharkNinjato enter multiple product categories driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham Massachusetts with more than4100associates the companys products are sold at key retailers online and offline and through distributors around the world.

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Needham MA

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 SharkNinjas embedded firmware organization: schedule quality and scope for the firmware programs and platform work we keep internally. Youll 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.

Youll 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 teams time gets spent across concurrent programs.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Science or a related discipline required.