Summary
Joe Gorse is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer and engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience and 20+ years of broader engineering and QA leadership, now building firmware for Joby Aviation’s eVTOL S4. He combines deep embedded systems expertise (bare-metal, embedded Linux, ARM toolchains) with pragmatic quality and compliance leadership across ISO 9001, DO-254/178C and MIL-STDs, helping teams deliver mission-critical military, automotive, medical, and aerospace systems. Joe has a proven track record of shrinking development cycles through Agile adoption, CI/CD and test-driven practices while owning end-to-end product delivery from prototype to certification readiness. He’s equally comfortable coding kernel modules and device trees as he is aligning stakeholders and scaling high-performing teams in both startups and large enterprises. Notably, he accelerated ARM64 development by enabling early Mac M1 toolchains and delivered a custom NXP display driver in a single month for a medical device launch. Based in California, he pairs technical depth with practical process improvements that reduce risk and speed time-to-market.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Leadership, Pass, Certificate, Leadership, Pass at Harvard Online
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Diploma, Diploma at Saint Ignatius High School
English, Latin