Staff Engineer - Embedded Software

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, lead and communicates architecture decisions and rationale for embedded real-time system projects.
• Select the appropriate technologies to meet the project need and provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team.
• Reverse engineer and document existing architectures
• Make architectural firmware decisions & drive development from prototype to release.
• Ensure the use of appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the product development life cycle.
• Lead and participate in design reviews, code reviews, and other engineering activities to ensure high-quality development.
• Champion a development culture which emphasizes product quality, strong and compliant documentation, team accountability, and continuous improvement
• Introduce and/or reinforce best-practices in embedded software development to the teams.
• Mentor and guide software developers to build useful architecture and design, accountable for related regulatory documentation.

Skills and experience

• Must have 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience developing Object-Oriented code in C++; strong experience using design patterns and refactoring, and other software development standard methodologies.
• Experience leading and developing architecture on a mid-large real-time embedded system, with multiple geographically dispersed teams.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, developing, and integrating real time embedded software, including integration on target hardware.
• Practical experience in software engineering techniques and design methodologies
• Considerable experience with Real-Time operating systems
• Excellent communication and documentation skills and a collaborative mentality; able to engage and draw input from cross-functional personnel.
• Capable to conduct thorough testing, debugging, and performance optimization of code to ensure reliability and quality.
• Experience with multi-processing architectures and techniques.
• Proven experience throughout full product and embedded firmware development lifecycle, including defining goals and reaching milestones in a cross-functional capacity.
• Strong focus on architecture relating to crafting cyber-secure systems, integrating simulators, crafting for test automation.

Good to have

• Exposure to innovative technology like Artificial intelligence, cloud or IoT
• Exposure to hazard analysis, tool validation and requirement management
• Experience with STM, Freescale, NXP, or Atmel microprocessors.
• Understanding of medical device standards such as IEC 62304, ISO14971 and IEC 60601

• Familiar with FDA guidelines and 510K submission process

Primary Work Location

Additional Locations

Work Shift