Embedded Software Leader

Inspiren; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible PTO and parental leave

Job summary

Inspiren, a growing technology company focused on senior living, seeks an Embedded Software Leader to own the OS and device software across hardware generations. You will supervise updates, rollouts, and telemetry while partnering with Hardware, Firmware, and JDM teams.

The role scales with experience, offering leadership and a path to influence a broad fleet of devices. You'll lead an embedded software team, design operational norms, and introduce AI-enhanced testing and deployment practices to

Qualifications

• 5+ years in embedded, firmware, edge, or device software, with 2+ years leading a software team.
• Experience hiring, building, and managing teams of embedded or device software engineers.
• Owned OTA, fleet health, and availability for thousands of devices; describe rollout and telemetry.
• Hands-on depth in embedded Linux apps: Yocto/ systemd/ containers on device.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; startup experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define SLOs and telemetry; manage on-call and postmortems.
• Own updates: OTA, staged rollouts, health checks, rollback.
• Own embedded Linux app layer and MCU app logic; decouple from hardware cycles.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Firmware, and JDM; ensure actionable firmware.
• Lead org design, hiring, and career growth; set cross-team ownership norms.
• Bring AI into codebase: generated tests, fleet triage, regression analysis.

Skills

Embedded software leadership

OTA expertise

Team building & hiring

C/C++/Linux

Telemetry observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Tools

Yocto/Linux

Systemd

Containerization

JDM collaboration

Job description

Who We Are

Inspiren offers a complete and connected technology ecosystem for senior living. Founded by Michael Wang, a former Green Beret and cardiothoracic nurse, Inspiren was built on the belief that compassionate care and technology can and should coexist.

Our integrated solutions fit into existing workflows and give senior‑living operators greater visibility into what is happening across their communities. Supported by nurse specialists and powerful analytics, Inspiren helps teams make informed clinical and operational decisions that improve efficiency, outcomes, and quality of care.

You’ll join a growing global team united by a shared mission, with a new NYC office designed to strengthen collaboration and in‑person connection.

About the Role

We are seeking an Embedded Software Leader that will own everything from the OS up on every device we ship: the application software, the update and rollback path, and how tens of thousands of devices behave in senior living communities. When a device goes down in a community, it's a resident safety issue, and your team owns the outcome. Hardware & Firmware own everything below the OS, and you'll work closely with them and our JDM partner. We're open to different levels of leadership experience and will calibrate the scope and level of the role based on the strengths and experience of the person we hire.

What You'll Do

• Fleet reliability and operations: Define the SLOs (uptime, time‑to‑recover, OTA success, cloud‑dark rate, crash‑loop rate), build the telemetry to measure them, and run the operating rhythm: on‑call, incident response, postmortems.

• OTA and release engineering: Own updates, staged rollouts, health checks, and rollback across multiple hardware generations, silicon vendors, and both MCU and Linux devices.

• Device application platform: Own the embedded Linux application layer (services, containers, configuration, connectivity, on‑device inference runtime) and the application logic on MCU devices (LoRaWAN/BLE, pendant and beacon behavior). Keep it decoupled from hardware revisions so your team ships without waiting on firmware or board cycles.

• Partnership with Hardware, Firmware, and the JDM: Make sure JDM‑delivered firmware is something we can build on, and embed your engineers in NPI from bring‑up so the people who sustain a device are there when it comes alive.

• Team building: Own org design, hiring, and career growth for the embedded software team, and set the norms (joint definition of done, shared on‑call across the hardware/software seam, clear code ownership) that make cross‑team ownership work.

• AI‑native engineering: Bring AI into the codebase: generated test harnesses, fleet log triage, regression analysis, code review augmentation.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years in embedded, firmware, edge, or device software, with 2+ years leading a software team

• Experience hiring, building, and managing teams of embedded or device software engineers

• You’ve operated a production fleet: owned OTA, fleet health, and availability for thousands of connected devices in the field. You can walk us through a staged rollout, a rollback you had to execute, and the telemetry that told you to

• Hands‑on depth in embedded Linux applications: you've shipped and sustained the OS‑up layer (Yocto or equivalent, systemd, containers on device, connectivity, update clients) on production hardware, and you can engage on what sits below it

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence executive leadership and pivot strategies to meet 1‑year and 2‑year business goals. Start‑up experience is a plus.

Nice To Have

• Experience working across a hardware/firmware seam (in‑house team, ODM/JDM, or both) with a defined interface contract

• MCU application experience

• Fleet telemetry and observability at scale

• Regulated or high‑stakes environments (healthcare, safety‑critical, HIPAA)

• On‑device ML runtime integration (NVIDIA Jetson, MediaTek NPU, or similar)

• Experience on the receiving end of an NPI handoff and improving the process

• At the Director level: you've led multiple teams or managed managers, and owned a multi‑quarter hiring plan

What You’ll Get

At Inspiren, you’ll help reshape how older adults live and age with greater safety, connection, and dignity. Here’s how we support the people making that possible:

• Competitive Compensation — A strong base salary and variable compensation where applicable.

• Ownership in Our Future — Equity that gives you a stake in the impact and value we’re building together.

• Growth and Recognition — Semiannual reviews that recognize your contributions and support your continued development.

• AI Tools and Training — Access to leading AI tools and company‑wide training that help you work smarter and strengthen your skills.

For U.S.-Based Employees

• Health and Wellness — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental‑health resources, and employee‑assistance programs.

• Financial Protection — A 401(k) retirement plan, HSA and FSA options, and company‑paid life and disability insurance.

• Time to Recharge — Flexible PTO, five paid sick days annually, company‑observed holidays, and company‑wide recharge periods designated each year.

• Family Support — Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for bonding, additional leave for birthing parents, fertility and family‑building benefits, and paid caregiver and bereavement leave.

• Flexible Work Support — Hybrid and remote arrangements based on the role and location, along with home‑office, internet, or phone reimbursement where applicable.

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