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title: 'Senior Edge Signal Processing Engineer at Whoop'
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# Senior Edge Signal Processing Engineer at Whoop

- **Company:** [Whoop](https://feeny.ai/companies/whoop)
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/whoop/cf705333-05ea-494a-9697-c55da343f195

## Job description

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock and inspire performance for life. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. WHOOP is seeking a Senior Edge Signal Processing Engineer to join the Sensor Intelligence Group (SIG), a cross-functional team collaborating across WHOOP Labs, Firmware, and Machine Learning and Research. This role is central to developing next-generation sensor processing to enable foundational health features at WHOOP. You’ll develop the edge signal processing underpinning WHOOP physiological insights and coaching, ultimately delivering meaningful and personalized feedback to millions of members.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the design and development of real-time signal processing and edge inference for consumer products
- Own the full development lifecycle, from prototyping and validation through productization and continuous improvement
- Evaluate commercial solutions, develop prototypes and demos, and inform build/buy decisions
- Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, software, and product teams to bring algorithms to WHOOP members
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a high-performance, research-to-production culture

## Qualifications

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field, M.S. or PhD preferred
- 5+ years of experience developing and deploying real-time sensor signal processing algorithms (physiological, audio, motion, or related modalities)
- Strong foundation in signal processing fundamentals (e.g., filtering, spectral analysis, time-frequency methods)
- Demonstrated experience integrating signal-processing components into end-to-end embedded systems
- Ability to implement and optimize signal-processing algorithms for constrained compute, memory, latency, and power budgets
- Experience integrating third-party libraries, frameworks, or algorithm IP
- Proficiency in Python or MATLAB for algorithm prototyping and with C/C++ for deployment to embedded product platforms
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present technical results to a diverse audience
- Demonstrated creativity, adaptability, and a strong interest in translating prototypes into products

Additional Desired Experience

- Experience deploying signal processing algorithms to battery-powered consumer product platforms
- Familiarity with adaptive signal processing, multi-sensor processing, signal enhancement, detection, or classification techniques
- Experience developing and evaluating hybrid DSP/ML systems
- Familiarity with embedded firmware, RTOS environments, and real-time processing pipelines
- Experience using optimized MCU/DSP libraries and acceleration frameworks (e.g., CMSIS-DSP, CMSIS-NN, or vendor-specific libraries)
- Experience with fixed-point implementation, quantization, or other numerical optimization techniques for embedded signal processing

## About Whoop

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: WHOOP is a human performance optimization platform that uses a wearable device and 24/7 monitoring to help members improve sleep, strain, recovery, and overall health.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly available in provided sources)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Will Ahmed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Wearable health technology, human performance optimization
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers, athletes) and B2B (professional sports teams, organizations)
- **Mission**: “To unlock human performance and Healthspan.” [whoop.com - About](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/about/)

## Products & Services
- **WHOOP 5.0 + Subscription**: A non-screen wrist-worn wearable with 14+ day battery life that continuously monitors sleep, strain, recovery, heart rate, heart rate variability, and 65+ biomarkers. The platform provides personalized coaching, blood pressure insights, women’s hormonal insights, VO₂ max, heart rate zones, and mental health tracking. Type: Hardware + SaaS subscription. [whoop.com - Homepage](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available (annual revenue not disclosed); estimated headcount of 500 employees [Built In Boston](https://www.builtinboston.com/company/whoop)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: 500 total employees; hybrid workspace (4 days on-site per week); actively hiring across Engineering, AI/ML, Data & Analytics, Product, and Design; only 0.13% of applicants are hired, indicating high selectivity and strong talent demand. [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/) | [Built In Boston](https://www.builtinboston.com/company/whoop)

## Competitive Advantages
- Proprietary 24/7 physiological monitoring with advanced sensor technology and an ultra-long battery life (14+ days)
- Deep scientific foundation – founded after reviewing over 500 medical papers
- Personalized coaching and insight delivery based on individual biometric data
- Strong brand recognition among elite athletes and mainstream consumers
- Privacy-first design with encrypted data storage [whoop.com - Homepage](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/)

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding health insights: introducing blood pressure monitoring, women’s hormonal health features, and heart health tracking
- Enhancing AI/ML capabilities (evident from many open AI/ML roles) [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/whoop)
- Deepening enterprise/B2B partnerships with sports organizations and research institutions
- Continuing to build out Healthspan and longevity features

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid workspace** – employees are on-site 4 days a week in Boston’s “best office” [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)
- **Benefits** – flexible time off, above-market compensation, paid parental leave, health support [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)
- **Employee Resource Groups** – ADAPT (disability inclusion), BLACK@WHOOP, LGBTQ+ (WHOOP GOOP), Veterans and Military Personnel, Women of WHOOP, Women in Science and Engineering, WHOOP Parents [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)
- **High selectivity** – only 0.13% of applicants are hired, reflecting a rigorous, standards-driven culture [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)
- **Equal Opportunity Employer** – committed to diversity and inclusion in all employment decisions [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)

## Sources
1. [whoop.com - Careers](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/careers/)
2. [whoop.com - About](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/about/)
3. [whoop.com - Homepage](https://www.whoop.com/us/en/)
4. [Built In Boston - WHOOP Office Profile](https://www.builtinboston.com/company/whoop)
5. [jobs.lever.co - WHOOP Job Listings](https://jobs.lever.co/whoop)

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