Miles Cooper

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VP of Engineering at Pebble AI · Embedded systems

Pebble AI
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
Ivey Business School
English
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Pebble AI, focused on embedded systems. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 5. Most at home with Bluetooth LE and ARM Cortex-M. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Skills
Bluetooth LEARM Cortex-Membedded LinuxRTOSC
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Building out firmware at Pebble AI: security engineers wanted in Toronto

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$144k-$193k
Team
Firmware, 12 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with Bluetooth LE Production experience with RTOS Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp C$142k-C$206k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ONembedded linuxrtosc
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Pebble AI · 6 mo · Contract · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the firmware team from 6 to 36 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 2.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 26 a week to 2.
  2. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Apr 2026
    Air Canada · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 318ms to 150ms.
  3. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
    Meta · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 34% in two quarters.
    • Grew the firmware team from 5 to 22 engineers.
  4. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
    Rogers · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 29% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Sep 2014 - Jul 2016
    OpenText · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the C service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. Ivey Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2014 - 2016
  2. University of Waterloo
    BMath, Computer Engineering
    2007 - 2011

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