Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

The Sr Embedded Software Engineer oversees the design, development, and validation of software for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements. They play a crucial role in software design, coding, and validation, address moderate scope problems, and participate in software development activities under guidance and mentoring junior engineers.

Adherence to FDA-compliant Design Control procedures and proficiency in software implementation are key aspects of the role.

- Design and implement software in current programming languages (e.g. C, C++, C#, python). - Working from requirement specifications, develops, maintains, and updates detailed design and interface specifications. - Participates in and supports the implementation, development, enhancements, and modifications to software source code, scripts, and procedures. - Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as offer strategic solutions, analysis, and advice regarding identified issues for future development. - Assist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results. - Work on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. - Exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. - Participate in software development, verification and validation following the guidance of software lead. - Follow approved Design Control procedures for software development in accordance with FDA guidelines. - Contributes to and supports writing, updating, developing and maintaining Hazard/Risk analysis specifications. - Contributes to and supports root-cause analysis of failures.

- Minimum 7 years of related experience or Master's Degree with 4+ years of related experience - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Strong familiarity with current development tools (IDEs, debuggers, unit test frameworks)

- Experience with middleware frameworks, protocol stacks, or system-level software. Examples: USB stack, BLE stack, TCP/IP, file systems, etc. - Experience building end-to-end systems (firmware → middleware → application) - Experience testing software is a plus - Knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical device development is a plus - Knowledge of the principles of quality software engineering as described by software lifecycle development processes that are consistent with ISO, IEEE, or other FDA recognized standards is a plus - Experience with software development life cycle processes is a plus

The base pay for this position is $100,000.00 - $200,000.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

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