Senior Sensor Intelligence Engineering Program Manager

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Hardware

This role is for a Senior Sensor Intelligence Engineering Program Manager at WHOOP, focusing on the advanced development of physiological sensing and signal processing capabilities. The program manager will partner with researchers, hardware engineers, and firmware teams to explore new algorithms, enable research, and validate sensing technologies. Key responsibilities include leading program management for early-stage algorithm development, defining experimental roadmaps, establishing structured processes for prototyping and evaluation, coordinating data collection studies, identifying technical risks, and facilitating the transition of promising algorithms into product development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead program management for early-stage signal processing and physiological algorithm development, enabling rapid exploration of new sensing and modeling approaches that may power future WHOOP capabilities.
  2. Partner with sensor intelligence researchers, data scientists, hardware engineers, and firmware teams to define experimental roadmaps, feasibility milestones, and technical success criteria for advanced development programs.
  3. Establish structured processes for algorithm prototyping, experimentation, and iterative evaluation, helping research teams move efficiently from concept to validated technical feasibility.
  4. Coordinate cross-functional efforts to design and execute data collection studies, ensuring research teams have the datasets required to evaluate new signal processing approaches.
  5. Identify technical risks, knowledge gaps, and dependencies early, driving focused investigations that inform future product development decisions.

Skills

Required

  • program management
  • signal processing
  • algorithm development
  • cross-functional coordination
  • technical risk identification
  • data collection study design
  • prototyping
  • experimentation

Nice to have

  • physiological sensing
  • hardware engineering
  • firmware engineering
  • data science