Position Summary

Responsibilities

• Participate in the architecture, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of reliable, high-quality embedded software for ivWatch medical devices.
• Develop embedded software in C and/or C++ for microcontroller-based systems.
• Perform register-level programming and develop or integrate low-level peripheral drivers, including SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, timers, ADCs, DMA, and other MCU peripherals.
• Design and debug interrupt-driven and real-time embedded software.
• Develop software using FreeRTOS or similar real-time operating systems.
• Build, cross-compile, and debug firmware for microcontroller platforms, including ARM Cortex-M.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics to understand hardware interfaces, signal paths, component connections, and MCU configurations in support of firmware development and debugging.
• Use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and signal generators to troubleshoot hardware and software interactions.
• Participate in software architecture, design, and peer code reviews.
• Develop modular, maintainable, and testable software using established software engineering practices.
• Develop unit tests in C/C++ and apply best practices, including boundary and edge-case testing.
• Develop Python-based tools and automated tests to support development, verification, debugging, and data analysis.
• Use Git for version control and collaborative software development.
• Investigate and correct software defects identified during development, verification and validation, and in commercialized products.
• Ensure software development activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, internal procedures, and software engineering best practices.
• Contribute to the collaborative and fast-moving engineering culture of a growing medical device company.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Professional experience developing embedded software using C and/or C++.
• Ability to read and understand electrical schematics and apply them to firmware development and hardware/software troubleshooting.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of microcontroller architecture and register-level programming.
• Experience with interrupt handling, concurrency, timing, and real-time embedded systems.
• Experience with embedded peripherals and communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, timers, DMA, and ADCs.
• Experience debugging embedded systems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and other laboratory equipment.
• Experience with embedded software build systems and cross-compilation toolchains.
• Familiarity with CMake.
• Experience writing unit tests in C/C++, including boundary and edge-case testing.
• Experience developing test automation or engineering tools using Python.
• Familiarity with FreeRTOS or other real-time operating systems.
• Proficiency with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Experience developing software for regulated products or medical devices.