This role is for SFTC-PV for a Senior Staff Engineer with experience in Embedded Systems. You will provide technical leadership for the architecture design development integration verification and lifecycle support of embedded software for innovative medical-device platforms. You will solve complex system-level problems; establish reusable technical approaches; influence product and platform roadmaps; and guide cross-functional teams in translating clinical system hardware cybersecurity and regulatory needs into protected robust and scalable solutions. This role combines deep hands-on expertise in real-time embedded development low-level software motor-control applications hardwaresoftware integration and verification with broad technical ownership mentoring and decision-making across multiple projects.
What you will do:
Technical Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the architecture design development integration test release and maintenance of scalable embedded software for medical-device and electromechanical critical technical decisions and system-level trade-offs across software electronics controls FPGA cybersecurity usability and product performance.
- Define embedded software architecture interfaces technology roadmaps reusable platforms engineering standards and long-term modernization strategies across products and and review production-quality firmware and low-level software in C and C for ARM-based microcontrollers microprocessors DSPs and FPGA-enabled platforms.
- Architect and implement closed-loop control solutions including motor-control and PID algorithms with deterministic hard real-time performance safety and development and debugging of board support packages bootloaders device drivers hardware abstraction layers middleware and low-level communication interfaces.
- Guide development on real-time operating systems and embedded Linux platforms including scheduling concurrency memory management inter-process communication system performance and reliability optimization.
- Define and troubleshoot interfaces and protocols such as SPI I2C UART CAN USB Ethernet and other wired or wireless communications as clinical system software and hardware needs into architecture requirements detailed designs interfaces implementation plans and verification strategies.
- Champion object-oriented design design patterns modular architecture coding standards defensive programming secure-software practices and design for testability and with electrical and systems engineers to review schematics datasheets timing diagrams component specifications board designs failure modes and hardwaresoftware integration risks.
- Lead board bring-up performance characterization and complex root-cause analysis using JTAG/SWD debuggers oscilloscopes logic analyzers digital multimeters protocol analyzers and related laboratory unit integration system automated hardware-in-the-loop code-coverage static-analysis and regression-test strategies; ensure adequate evidence and traceability.
- Lead architecture reviews design reviews code reviews risk reviews failure investigations and technical readiness assessments; document decisions alternatives and technical estimation dependency and risk management sprint and release planning configuration management build automation and continuous integration/continuous delivery practices.
- Resolve ambiguous or high-impact defects field issues performance limitations cybersecurity concerns and product risks; guide teams toward sustainable corrective and preventive proofs of concept technology assessments platform modernization component-obsolescence strategies design simplification cost improvements and engineering-process improvements.
- Ensure high-quality engineering artifacts including requirements architecture and design documentation interface specifications source code test evidence traceability technical reports and lifecycle as a technical mentor and subject-matter expert; grow engineering capability through coaching design guidance knowledge sharing and constructive technical challenge. Influence global cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct authority; communicate technical strategy risks decisions and progress clearly and credibly.
What You Need:
Required skills:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering or a related discipline.
- Typically 12-14 years of professional software-development experience including extensive hands-on embedded-product development and technical leadership of complex or safety-critical systems.
- Expert-level programming skills in embedded C and C with a demonstrated record of delivering production-quality software under stringent resource timing safety and reliability experience with microcontroller and microprocessor architectures real-time operating systems embedded Linux board support packages bootloaders device drivers and hardwaresoftware integration.
- Demonstrated ability to define software or system architecture lead complex technical investigations evaluate technologies make cross-functional trade-offs and drive decisions from concept through product release and sustaining support.
- Extensive experience developing integrating and debugging hardware-dependent software using laboratory instruments hardware debuggers and disciplined root-cause analysis.
- Strong knowledge of requirements engineering software design verification risk management configuration management version control defect management and product lifecycle ability to lead through influence mentor engineers communicate with senior stakeholders and collaborate in a global cross-functional matrixed analytical problem-solving technical writing presentation and verbal communication skills with the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous and complex problems.
Good to have skills:
- - Experience with Agile development Git-based workflows CI/CD platforms automated builds static analysis unit-test frameworks and requirements or application-lifecycle-management with model-based design MATLAB/Simulink hardware-in-the-loop environments formal methods or automated test frameworks.
- Experience supporting the full product lifecycle including new product development sustaining engineering product complaints CAPA obsolescence production support and post-market improvements.
- Experience evaluating external technologies suppliers development partners or acquired product architectures and integrating them into an enterprise product ecosystem.
- Strong knowledge of medical-device software development and applicable standards including IEC 62304 ISO 13485 ISO 14971 IEC 60601 and relevant FDA or international regulatory expectations.
- Experience leading technical content for regulatory submissions design assurance risk management cybersecurity assessments or product safety activities.