Senior Embedded Engineer, Connected Devices

Senior Embedded Engineer, Connected Devices

Branch is shaking up the $46B office products industry to create the best work experience for the 21st century: easy, affordable and adaptable so you can sit down (or stand) and get to work.

Most people spend eight hours a day at their workspace. Our mission is creating accessible and inspiring products to help people and teams feel their best at work, wherever that happens.

We are based in NYC and Toronto, and backed by the investors behind Quip, Caraway, Eight Sleep and Peloton. Our culture combines strategic clarity with scrappy execution; we think and plan rigorously but ship fast and have fun doing it. We are looking for entrepreneurial teammates who do the same.

We are hiring a Senior Embedded Engineer to help us build the next generation of connected products  Connected Devices program is small, ambitious, and moving fast: we are shipping a new wave of products that bring intelligence and connectivity to the workday, and we need a hands‑on technical leader who can take them from prototype to mass production alongside us.

This is a rare role. You will be the day-to-day technical counterpart to our Director of Product (Connected Devices), with a world‑class senior hardware architect as your advisor and mentor. The architect operates at the level of design reviews, architectural design and manufacturing builds; you will own the work that fills in the gaps: the bring‑up, the bug hunts, the firmware features, the test fixtures, and the integration with our cloud and app teams.

The ambition is for you to grow into the technical lead for the program, across multiple Connected Devices projects.

You have shipped at least one connected hardware product end-to-end and you remember every detail of what went wrong. You are comfortable with firmware, software, and hardware; you do not draw a hard line between them, and you light up when you get to work across the stack from silicon to cloud. You are an experienced engineer with senior instincts: you ask for help when you should, take ownership when no one else will, and finish what you start.

You move fast without being sloppy. You are comfortable being the only person in the room who knows how a regulator behaves under load, but you are equally comfortable admitting when you don’t know something (and then learning it quickly). You treat AI tools as a force multiplier and have opinions on how to use them well, while staying accountable for the quality of what ships.

You are energetic, positive and direct. You want to work on a small team where your decisions show up in the product within days, not quarters. You would rather work alongside an experienced team who pushes you than be the smartest person in the room.

• Lead the day-to-day firmware development for our connected products, from feature implementation to debugging to release management
• Drive hardware bring‑up on new revisions: power rails, clock validation, peripheral verification, and the unglamorous bench work that proves a board is alive
• Own embedded development across our microcontroller stack, including wireless connectivity and the sensor integration that makes our products intelligent
• Design and own the test fixtures we use in manufacturing; this is critical, infrequently glamorous work that makes or breaks production quality, and you should expect to lead it
• Be the person on‑call, on the factory floor, who makes sure manufacturing goes right the first time
• Work hand‑in‑glove with our external design and manufacturing partners; set the bar for what we accept from them
• Partner with our senior hardware architect on design reviews, firmware verification plans, and manufacturing builds, freeing them to focus on high‑leverage initiatives
• Plan and execute against EVT, DVT and PVT milestones, along with the documentation and process work that makes production‑grade quality possible
• Travel up to 20% of the time, including overseas, to design and manufacturing partners for hands‑on builds and issue resolution
• Work closely with our product, industrial design, app and cloud teams to make sure the hardware, firmware and customer…