Senior Engineer, Embedded Software R&D

Who we want:
As a R&D Embedded SW Senior Engineer, you will perform a wide variety of technical work in planning, design and implementation of embedded software for medical devices used by surgeons and healthcare surgical staff to allow them to plan and perform their procedures.  This role will be a key contributor to the embedded software development process of embedded medical devices that supports our electrosurgery portfolio.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Conduct or design prototyping and bench testing.

• Conduct problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements.

• Conduct research and studies to support product design.

• Translate design inputs to engineering specifications and produce component and sub-system level designs.

• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects.

• Design new components applying various design concepts.

• Generate and review the necessary documents with project teams (requirements, design, architecture, bugs, test).

Business Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of customer needs and design inputs.
• Demonstrate proficiency with product’s intended use and clinical procedures.
• Learn how the financial models are constructed.

Med Device Compliance:

• Follow fundamental industry standards, design requirements and test strategies which apply to regulatory requirements.
• Independently create or refine engineering documentation, such as the Design History file.
• Follow R&D procedure like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System.

General Responsibilities:

• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success as a key member of the team, collaborating with others and solidifying relationships.
• Quickly process and assimilate procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology required.
• Work on complex problems, applying advanced experience and learnings.
• Demonstrate ownership and prioritize work with minimal supervision.
• Build relationships and influence among peers.
• Lead code reviews for components in systems applying design principals, coding standards and best practices.
• Develop and design software components per requirements and architecture defined.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 2+ years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
Technical Skills:

• Knowledgeable programming skills in C and C++. Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns

Design and Development Skills:

• Experience with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects.
• Experience with software tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software.
• Integration and deployment processes experience using ST microcontrollers preferred.

Software Process Skills:

• Experience in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks.
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle processes.
• Experience using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.
• Experience with regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:

• Understands the theory and methods of Embedded Software (C/C++) and can apply them under minimal supervision while demonstrating:
• Proficiency in designing, developing, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance of embedded software