- Feature Decomposition: Collaborate with Product Managers to define features and convert them into detailed user stories , enablers & spikes with acceptance criteria. You will have the support of a firmware architect
- Specifications: Translate product requirements into detailed firmware requirements and acceptance criteria, ensuring that all MVP-related items are clearly defined and ready for development before inclusion in sprints.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: As a member of the firmware team, you will identify cross-functional dependencies and ensure that interface agreements with the hardware, cloud, mobile application, mechanical, and industrialization teams are clearly defined and documented.
- E2E Scenarios: Lead end-to-end validation definition to confirm embedded software functionality meets product requirements
- Story Acceptance: Review and approve user stories based on technical and business acceptance criteria in collaboration with the Product Owner.
- Agile Execution: Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- SAFe Delivery: Support PI Planning and other SAFe ceremonies, ensuring alignment across ARTs
- Tooling: Use JIRA and Confluence to manage backlogs, documentation, and traceability
- Global Team Support: Collaborate with teams in India, France, Spain, and the US, providing necessary time zone overlap to ensure smooth communication and delivery
- 7+ years in Embedded Software Technical/Business Analyst role within Agile/SAFe environments
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams
- Expertise in JIRA and Confluence
- Strong communication and documentation skills
- Must be onsite in Carlsbad, CA (Relocation not covered)
- Must be available for in-person final interview
- Understanding of cloud (AWS) or IoT domains is a plus
- Nice to Have:
- Experience with connected devices, IoT, or AWS-based systems
- Familiarity with firmware testing frameworks or CI/CD processes for embedded environments
- Flexible Vacation Time
- 9/80 work week schedule (EVERY OTHER FRIDAY OFF!) with subsequent Fridays WFH
- 11 paid Holidays
- Full range of health benefits including medical, dental & vision, short & long-term disability
- 401(K) matching (100% of first 3% contributed, 50% of the next 2%)
- Health and wellness programs / gym reimbursement
- Educational assistance up to $7,000 per year
- On-site self-service café / free gourmet coffee stations
- Company sponsored FUN events!
- Generous product discounts
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What We Do
We’re an industry‐leading, global company with a legacy of innovation. Our reach extends worldwide across both the residential and commercial pool and wellness markets. We now have over 7,000 employees, a presence in over 45 countries and the combined resources to accelerate innovation in critical areas like energy-efficiency, robotics and the Internet of Things.
Offering an extensive array of quality‐designed pool and spa equipment, our portfolio includes some of the most trusted brands in the business: Polaris®, Jandy®, CMP, S.R. Smith, and Zodiac®. We also sell products under the Cover‐Pools®, iAquaLink®, Grand Effects®, Dell® and Nature2® names.
Our focus is on creating the perfect pool and wellness experience responsibly. We take our mission to heart, and our employees embody the passion for results, teamwork, and user focus that get us there.
Why Work With Us
Our company culture is what makes us all look forward to coming to work each day. It’s innovative, energetic, ambitious — and dare we say — FUN. Built on a solid foundation of corporate values that prioritize our employees and customers, our values are the code by which we live and breathe — not just writing on the wall.








