Senior Embedded Firmware Developer at SharkNinja in Needham, MA

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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 At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in. 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 desi