Senior Embedded Firmware Developer
About Us
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 4,100 associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.
AI at SharkNinja
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Senior Embedded Firmware Developer
Needham, MA
The Opportunity
This is the hands-on device firmware role at SharkNinja - you write the code that ships. Two things sit with you: the firmware features SharkNinja deliberately keeps in-house (device control and the differentiated features that make our products distinct), and the platform layer that other programs build on top of (reference implementations, hardware abstraction, and shared device firmware components).
The architecture, interface contracts, HAL boundaries, and platform selection criteria are already defined. Your work is building to those decisions: production feature code end to end, plus the reference implementations and platform components that prove the architecture out for every program and partner that follows.
What You'll Own
Firmware Delivery
- Design, implement, and debug production embedded firmware for consumer and home appliance products.
- Features end to end - requirements clarification, implementation, unit test, integration, and release support.
- Building in the retained areas: device control, OTA, and differentiated product features.
- Development against the architecture, interface, and HAL standards - adopting platform components rather than rebuilding them.
Platform Implementation
- Implement the defined reference architectures and implementations for platform capabilities reused across product categories.
- Build and maintain hardware abstraction (HAL) layers, shared drivers, and core device firmware components: motor control, sensor and actuator integration, and power management.
- Build to the defined interface contracts and platform decisions.
- Prototype technology options to de-risk decisions ahead of program commitment.
Design Review & Partner Governance
- Participate in technical design reviews for internal and partner-developed firmware.
- Review partner-delivered code and integrate it against SharkNinja standards.
- Turn architectural intent into working reference code and shipped features that partners and other programs can build against without interpretation.
- Support partner technical capability assessments with hands-on evaluation of delivered code.
Engineering Standards & Infrastructure
- Write unit tests and maintain code coverage against the standard applied across internal and supplier code; resolve static analysis findings, with no unresolved critical or high-severity issues at release.
- Build and maintain CI pipeline, static analysis configuration, and test-harness infrastructure for owned features and platform components.
- Verify the reproducibility standard in practice - confirm that source, toolchain, and build manifest deliverables actually rebuild the shipping binary.
- Work in feature branches with PR-gated merges, ticket-linked commits, and commit messages sufficient to generate release notes.
Collaboration & Technical Growth
- Work under the technical direction of Principal Engineers on platform capabilities and design review, building toward broader architectural scope over time.
- Bring up firmware on target hardware and debug hardware-software integration issues with Hardware Engineering.
- Partner with Systems Engineering and NPD on device-level requirements and integration.
- Coordinate with firmware engineers in other regions to drive continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring
Experience
- 5+ years of embedded software and firmware development.
- Production firmware you've delivered and shipped in commercial products.
- Building to an architecture defined by others - implementing reference designs, drivers, or platform components from documented interface contracts.
- Consumer electronics, home appliances, robotics, or comparable high-volume products (preferred).
- CI/CD, automated testing, or build infrastructure for embedded systems (strongly preferred).
- Reviewing or integrating code from external development partners (an advantage).
Technical Expertise
- Strong embedded C; C++ on resource-constrained platforms.
- Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
- Hardware abstraction layer implementation and platform portability.
- Microcontroller peripherals, drivers, and low-level hardware interfaces.
- Motor control, sensor/actuator integration, and power management.
- Git-based workflows, CI builds (gcc, CMake, headless), unit testing (Ceedling or equivalent), static analysis.
- Debug on target hardware - oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, trace.
- OTA update mechanisms and device security fundamentals.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.
Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.
Pay Range
$125,000—$150,000 USD
Our Culture
At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar-we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.
What We Offer
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible. When you join, you’re not just part of a company-you’re part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won’t just launch products-we’ll disrupt entire markets.
At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
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