Senior Staff Embedded Engineer (Firmware)

Emeryville, CA March 7, 2026 Full Time Lever
Eko builds AI and digital tools to enable every healthcare provider to more accurately detect heart and lung disease – the leading causes of death globally. Our FDA cleared, industry leading products are used by hundreds of thousands of clinicians on millions of patients around the world. With Eko, clinicians can detect cardiac and pulmonary disease with higher accuracy, diagnose with more confidence, manage treatment effectively, and ultimately give their patients the best care possible. We have strong venture capital backing from investors like Artis Ventures, Questa Capital, Highland Capital, and Mayo Clinic Ventures. Recognized by TIME magazine in 2025 as one of the world’s top healthcare technology companies, Eko is one of the fastest growing digital health companies with products used around the world at some of the most prestigious health systems. We have more than 8 FDA clearances including novel AI algorithms, and we invest heavily in quality clinical research and R&D to build and validate exceptional products for patients we care deeply about. We’ve built a mission driven, high performing, talented, and diverse team of engineers, physicians, PhD’s, creatives, and technologists. We are committed to investing in each other and our mission to ensure all patients have access to high quality care. We are headquartered in Emeryville, California and privately-held with world class investors and partners. We're seeking an exceptional firmware engineer to join our core engineering team and help us build lifesaving technology at the intersection of hardware and software. You'll collaborate daily with mechanical, electrical, acoustic, and UX engineers. You'll architect and maintain the firmware that serves as the nervous system of our devices, coordinating signal processing, power management, wireless communication, and user interaction within embedded constraints. You'll collaborate directly with a small firmware team on architectural decisions for both shipping products and next-generation prototypes. This hands-on technical role requires quickly mastering our existing codebase to extract learnings while building new systems, writing production code, and shaping product direction through technical exploration. This is a hybrid role with required onsite presence on Tue/Wed/Thu.
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How to Get Hired at Ekohealth

  • Eko Health is an Oakland-based, venture-backed AI cardiopulmonary diagnostics company with FDA-cleared hardware (CORE 500, DUO) and FDA-cleared AI (SENSORA for low ejection fraction).
  • The ATS is Lever at jobs.lever.co/ekohealth. Apply directly, use the cover letter field, and fill every optional URL field.
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