Embedded Systems Engineer; Full-Stack

Overview

About Inspiren:
Inspiren offers the most complete and connected ecosystem in senior living. Founded by Michael Wang, a former Green Beret turned cardiothoracic nurse, Inspiren proves that compassionate care and technology can coexist - bringing peace of mind to residents, families, and staff. Our integrated solutions fit into existing workflows, capturing everything happening within a community. Backed by nurse specialists and powerful analytics, we provide the data operators need to make informed clinical and operational decisions, driving efficiency, profitability, and better care outcomes.

Inspiren builds connected devices that operate in real-world environments where reliability matters. We are hiring a Staff Embedded Systems Engineer to evolve our on-device software and firmware into a more modular, testable, and hardware-flexible platform. A major focus of this role is improving how the on-device system is structured by breaking it into clearer components with explicit, documented interfaces and defining abstractions that support multiple hardware variants, while keeping behavior consistent and reusing the same test suite across implementations.

You will contribute directly to the design and implementation of efficient, modular firmware across a range of microprocessors and microcontrollers, and to multi-protocol wireless communication (WiFi, BLE, LoRa, etc.) with a focus on real-world reliability. This is a hands-on engineering role with meaningful system design work. You will ship features, while also strengthening the foundation those features rely on: clear boundaries, explicit contracts, and automated validation.

What You'll Own

• Full-Stack Firmware Ownership: Drive the evolution of our firmware by architecting scalable systems, leading the design and creation of embedded-focused CI/CD pipelines, and managing fleet-wide OTA delivery.
• Wireless Integration: Help architect, implement, diagnose, and tune multi-protocol (WiFi, BLE, LoRa) communication stacks, ensuring reliability and seamless connectivity.
• Lead Embedded Systems Projects: Oversee the end-to-end development and performance optimization of firmware for a variety of microprocessors and microcontrollers.
• System Structure & Interfaces: Improve the structure of the on-device software by defining clearer component boundaries, interfaces between firmware and device services, and abstractions that support multiple hardware variants.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with hardware, application, and ML engineers, Product Managers, key-stakeholders, and JDM partners to define product and system requirements.
• Mentor, Innovate, and Optimize: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies. Introduce new methodologies and technologies to enhance performance and meet design specifications, and help your team grow. Provide deep technical expertise and support in embedded systems development, testing, and validation across the product lifecycle.
• Ensure Quality, Reliability, and Compliance: Lead decision-making on prototyping options, conduct testing, and validate embedded system performance and reliability against requirements, including security, environmental, and accelerated testing. Ensure all embedded software meets regulatory standards and industry best practices. Set quality and reliability specifications.
• Solve Problems: Troubleshoot and diagnose complex, real-world issues and implement effective solutions in a timely manner.
• Technical Strategy: Contribute to the long-term hardware and embedded systems roadmap, aligning development with the company s product and platform roadmap.

What You Bring

• Background: Bachelor s or Master s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field
• Experience: 10+ years in Embedded Systems, with at least 5 years specifically focused on high-level application processors (e.g. ARM Cortex-A series)
• Multi-Vendor Mastery: Proven track record shipping products on multiple SoC vendor platforms (e.g., NXP, Broadcom, Media Tek) with strong, experience-based perspectives on the major vendors
• Deep Linux Knowledge: Expert-level…