Senior Manager, Firmware Engineering

Senior Firmware Engineering Manager

At iRhythm, you'll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what's possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career.

About This Role:

Position Summary:

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Firmware Engineering Manager to lead and grow a critical embedded firmware team developing battery-powered cardiac monitoring devices. This role combines technical leadership, team development, and cross-functional collaboration in a regulated environment.

You will guide a team working on resource-constrained, bare-metal systems while scaling the team, strengthening engineering practices, and enhancing collaboration with partner organizations. This role requires someone who can engage deeply in technical decisions, streamline documentation and regulatory work, and proactively improve team effectiveness in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Success in this role will require strong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to influence across teams while driving clarity across both technical and organizational challenges.

This is a hybrid position, offering the flexibility to work remotely while maintaining hands-on collaboration with on-site engineering and operations teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of firmware engineers, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team environment
• Own firmware project execution, including defining priorities, setting goals, managing timelines, and ensuring delivery across multiple concurrent efforts
• Guide technical decision-making through architecture discussions, design reviews, and hands-on support for resource-constrained, embedded systems
• Partner cross-functionally with electrical engineering, software engineering, QA/RA, and other stakeholders to align on requirements, development processes, and delivery expectations
• Contribute to and oversee the development of firmware and associated documentation in compliance with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and related standards
• Evaluate and prioritize incoming development requests, balancing new product development, sustaining engineering, and post-market activities such as field investigations
• Improve team effectiveness by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in workflows, tooling, and development processes, including CI/CD and test infrastructure
• Support and streamline documentation and regulatory activities, helping reduce overhead on the engineering team while maintaining high quality standards
• Monitor team performance and delivery quality, using data and feedback to continuously improve outcomes
• Drive hiring and onboarding efforts to scale the team and build the capabilities needed to meet evolving business needs

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 2+ years of experience managing firmware or embedded software engineers
• 3+ years of hands-on firmware development experience in resource-constrained, embedded systems (bare-metal preferred)
• Experience working in a regulated industry (medical device strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with regulated development standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 13485
• Proficiency in C for embedded systems
• Experience working on cross-functional engineering teams involving hardware and software
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with connected or IoT devices, particularly battery-powered systems
• Experience contributing to documentation and design control activities in a regulated environment
• Familiarity with cybersecurity requirements for embedded or medical devices
• Experience with CI/CD, test infrastructure, or other development tooling improvements
• Familiarity with coding standards such as MISRA

Location: San Francisco

Actual compensation may vary depending on job-related factors including knowledge, skills, experience, and work location.

Estimated Pay Range $190,000.00 - $247,000.00

As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce. We welcome and celebrate people of all backgrounds, experiences, skills, and perspectives. iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with all applicable laws.

iRhythm provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, including those who may have any difficulty using our online system. If you need such an accommodation, you may contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io

About iRhythm Technologies iRhythm is a leading digital healthcare company that creates trusted solutions that detect, predict, and prevent disease. Combining wearable biosensors and cloud-based data analytics with powerful proprietary algorithms, iRhythm distills data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. Through a relentless focus on patient care, iRhythm's vision is to deliver better data, better insights, and better health for all.

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