Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

We are looking for a Lead Staff Firmware Developer to own and drive embedded firmware architecture for rechargeable hearing aid accessories. The role involves developing and maintaining high-quality firmware, guiding junior developers, and driving continuous product improvements while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

What you will do

• Own and lead embedded firmware architecture for the rechargeable portfolio of hearing aid accessories and maintaining it

• Develop, support, and implement embedded firmware by translating approved designs into high-quality code aligned with requirements and architectural standards

• Translate requirements into detailed design documentation and high-quality, maintainable code, ensuring traceability and compliance

• Contribute to peer reviews and continuous integration activities to maintain the system's performance and reliability

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers, promoting good practices in embedded systems development

• Drive continuous improvement of existing products, including bug fixing, feature enhancements, and updates, while coordinating ECR/ECN activities with cross-functional stakeholders.

What you bring

• 5-10 years of experience designing and developing embedded firmware architecture for hardware, ideally in portable, low-power devices

• Experience in communicating with hardware and developing embedded firmware for system bring-up

• Expertise in multi-threaded embedded programming using C, C++, Python, with good object-oriented programming (OOP) skills and experience in debugging real-time systems

• Skilled in implementing, testing, and verifying firmware features, including unit tests for functional correctness

• Contributed to peer code reviews, continuous integration, and ongoing firmware quality and performance improvements

• Proficiency in wireless protocols (e.g., Bluetooth), wireless power transfer technologies (e.g., Qi charging), and Internet of Things (IoT) related experiences is advantageous.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.