Senior Embedded Software Engineer

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of embedded software architectures for high-reliability medical device platforms.
• Define scalable software designs for real-time, resource-constrained embedded systems, balancing performance, maintainability, safety, and reliability.
• Optimize algorithms and system-level behavior for memory, CPU, latency, and deterministic real-time processing constraints.
• Apply strong debugging, troubleshooting, profiling, and root-cause analysis skills using target hardware, emulators, analyzers, and embedded development environments.
• Work with microcontrollers, DSP processors, FPGA interfaces, embedded Linux, RTOS-based systems, device drivers, and hardware/software integration points.
• Guide technical decisions in Agile development environments and promote engineering practices that improve quality, predictability, and execution rigor.
• Use languages and tools including C, C++, Python, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Bash, and GNU toolchains.

Developing Embedded Medical Device Software

• Design, implement, test, and maintain embedded software for medical devices in compliance with applicable quality system procedures and standards including IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971.
• Own software design approaches and technical roadmaps across medical device products, platforms, and reusable embedded software components.
• Optimize solutions for reliability, fault tolerance, efficiency, cybersecurity, privacy, and overall system performance.
• Translate product, system, and risk-control requirements into robust embedded software designs and implementation plans.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across hardware, firmware, operating system, application, and interface boundaries.
• Create and maintain design documentation, traceability, test evidence, and development artifacts throughout the product lifecycle.
• Commit to achieving project milestones while maintaining technical quality, compliance, and patient safety expectations.
• Perform duties in compliance with the Quality System and applicable medical device regulations., Embedded Software Implementation responsibilities:
• Develop high-performance, production-quality C and C++ software for embedded medical device systems.
• Implement and optimize product features that improve system performance, reliability, serviceability, and clinical workflow execution.
• Collaborate with systems, electrical, mechanical, verification, quality, regulatory, cybersecurity, and clinical stakeholders to deliver safe and effective medical device software.
• Analyze and optimize computation, data flow, and timing behavior to achieve deterministic real-time performance on embedded platforms.
• Create clear design documentation, code documentation, and development records that support verification, validation, maintenance, and future product updates.

Additional Responsibilities

• Evaluate software change requests, defect reports, technical risks, and product impacts for medical devices and supporting tools.
• Lead major software features, technical workstreams, and cross-functional problem-solving efforts from concept through release.
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and help establish best practices for embedded software engineering excellence.
• Participate in change control boards, design reviews, risk reviews, technical reviews, and project planning discussions.
• Communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
• Support continuous improvement of development processes, build and integration practices, and defect prevention methods.

• Experience with embedded graphics, video pipelines, or display standards such as HDMI, SDI, or DisplayPort
• Experience with embedded graphics stacks (framebuffer, DRM/KMS, Wayland/Qt, OpenGL ES)
• Strong understanding of video pipeline architecture: capture ? processing ? encoding ? display
• Familiarity with hardware-accelerated video pipelines (GPU/VPU/DSP-based)
• Development of device drivers for video interfaces (HDMI, MIPI CSI/DSI, DisplayPort)
• Experience with Linux kernel subsystems: DRM/KMS or V4L2 (Video for Linux)
• Integration of camera sensors, display controllers, and video processing IP
• Experience working with SoCs (NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm, NXP i.MX, TI, etc.)
• Exposure to FPGA or custom hardware pipelines for video processing
• Understanding of data paths (DMA, memory bandwidth constraints, zero-copy buffers)
• Debugging video issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, or protocol analyzers, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience developing embedded software using C and C++.
• Demonstrated experience delivering software for real-time or resource-constrained embedded systems.
• Strong object-oriented analysis and design skills, with comprehensive knowledge of embedded software development best practices.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS concepts, device interfaces, hardware/software integration, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
• Experience using Python for automation, tooling, testing, or data analysis.

Nice to Haves:

• Hands-on experience developing software under FDA-regulated design controls and standards including ISO 13485, IEC 62304, and ISO 14971.
• Experience with Xilinx toolchains, FPGA integration, DSP processing, or heterogeneous compute platforms.
• Experience with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Bash, GNU tools, CI/CD pipelines, static analysis, automated testing, or software build systems.
• Experience with cybersecurity, secure boot, software update mechanisms, vulnerability management, or secure software development practices.
• Experience with DSP hardware and software tools.
• Experience in agile development methodologies.