Overview As Firmware QA Engineering Manager, you lead the Hardware Accelerate team building the firmware quality foundation that enables robust research-focused platforms. You partner with product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape scalable solutions and best practices for reliability, security, and performance. You act as a hands-on leader, mentoring engineers across backend, iOS, and Android while driving delivery and growth. This role blends technical contributions with people leadership to foster innovation, psychological safety, and continuous learning in a fast-growing environment.
Compensation / Benefits- competitive base salary
- meaningful equity
- benefits package
- opportunity to work in a mission-driven company
- relocation support if needed
- growth and learning culture
Responsibilities- Lead a cross-functional engineering team integrating embedded, mobile, backend, and third party services to support research initiatives
- Define technology strategy, architecture, and design for features enabling research goals
- Collaborate with product and stakeholders to translate research needs into scalable systems
- Manage third-party vendors and technology relationships
- Maintain engineering best practices in development, testing, and deployment
- Contribute technically as a player-coach while driving team delivery and growth
- Mentor and coach team members for professional development
- Foster a culture of innovation, psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning
Key requirements- Hands-on software development experience with proven engineering management track record
- Strong technical skills in software development, testing, and deployment
- Experience leading high-performing, cross-functional teams and delivering complex projects
- Excellent communication and ability to align technical and business priorities
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with ownership mindset
- Commitment to leveraging AI tools in day-to-day tasks while maintaining high-quality standards
- Willingness to relocate to Boston, MA (office-based role)
- strong communication
- leadership
- collaboration
- firmware QA
- software development
- testing
