Senior Embedded Engineer

This senior-level engineering role focuses on safety, risk, and reliability analysis, project planning, and making informed tradeoff decisions affecting technical, resource, and business metrics such as cost, performance, schedule, quality, and reliability. The position involves working on advanced safety-critical medical devices, including product development, firmware architecture, communication interfaces, and component selection, with a focus on secure hardware encryption, testing, verification, and high reliability. The successful candidate will be responsible for software development related to Class I, II, and III medical devices, contributing to products such as neuromodulation platforms, implantable pulse generators, and more. This role entails developing architecture, design, coding, and verification strategies for active and passive implantable and external medical devices. The engineer will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including software, electrical, and mechanical hardware engineers, to ensure high-quality and timely product delivery. What You Will Do: Serve as a technical contributor within multiple project areas; provide expert-level guidance and mentorship to team members. Assist with project execution strategies, considering risk factors and emerging technologies. Recommend best practices and innovative solutions to ensure project and domain success. Represent the organization externally and engage with customers as needed. Demonstrate mastery of the full firmware development lifecycle, including impact analysis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. Help lead efforts in integrating deliverables from cross-functional teams. Estimate effort and risk, translating those into actionable development plans. Author, test, integrate, verify, and document firmware for cutting-edge medical devices using the latest technologies. Professional Experience and Responsibilities: Experience with design models and compliance to standards like IEC 62304. Proven expertise in bare-metal, ultralow power applications, with firmware control for power savings. Knowledge of controlling communication, digital, and analog circuits, including measurement and analysis tools. Experience designing for embedded microcontrollers, leveraging timers for power efficiency. Proficiency in C/C++, Python, and assembly languages across various architectures (e.g., ARM Cortex M, R, A series). Experience working with safety-critical bare-metal firmware and RTOS environments. Familiarity with electrical communication interfaces such as UART, I2C, USB, etc. Skills in developing low-level device drivers, wireless modules (BLE, NFC), and wireless/wired interfaces. Understanding of cybersecurity principles, FOTA updates, and secure firmware practices. Experience utilizing software development tools such as Jira, BitBucket, Git, or GitHub. Ability to independently perform architecture, design, testing, and reviews, and provide technical guidance. Basic Qualifications: Degree in a relevant field Minimum of 5 years of specialized experience in embedded firmware development. Class II and Class III medical device experience (wearables and implantables) is required. Experience working within requirements-driven, structured development processes. Additional Qualifications: Knowledge of relevant ISO, IEC, and regulatory standards (e.g., ISO 13485, IEC 14971). Experience in safety-critical applications, especially active implantable medical devices. Demonstrated skill in troubleshooting complex systems, performing root cause analysis, and bug fixing. Familiarity with related development tools. Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivated, and capable of working independently. Commitment to our core values: Honor, Results++, Humble Charisma, Velocity, and Ingenuity. Location is within the Houston, TX area. Relocation assistance and a competitive compensation package are provided.