Embedded Software Verification Engineer – Surgical Robotics (Cambridge, MA)

About the role

This is not a bare-metal firmware role or a junior test-execution role. We are looking for a hands-on verification engineer who can define how safety-critical robotic software should be verified, design meaningful tests from requirements, create protocols and evidence, and troubleshoot software behavior on real hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own verification planning and test design for real-time robotics control software, including test plans, protocols, procedures, pass/fail criteria, requirements coverage, and traceable verification evidence.
• Design, automate, and execute tests for software running on Linux/RTOS-based compute platforms that interact with motors, sensors, actuators, controllers, and other hardware through device interfaces and control applications.
• Investigate and verify system behavior on real hardware, including timing performance, control-loop behavior, fault handling, watchdogs, safe-state transitions, startup/shutdown behavior, recovery paths, and defects across software, controls, hardware, and system integration boundaries.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software verification, system verification, or integration testing for software-intensive products that interact with real hardware.
• Experience defining verification plans, test protocols, test procedures, test cases, and objective pass/fail criteria, not only executing predefined tests.
• Hands-on experience with real-time or timing-sensitive software running on Linux, RTOS, or Linux with real-time extensions, preferably above the bare-metal driver layer.
• Strong practical skills in Python and C++ for test automation, debugging, data analysis, test tooling, and troubleshooting hardware/software integration issues.
• Comfortable working in a regulated or safety-critical environment, interpreting requirements, creating traceable verification evidence, and collaborating across software, systems, controls, hardware, and quality teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent.

Skills

• Experience with real-time or timing-sensitive software running on Linux, RTOS, or Linux with real-time extensions.
• Practical skills in Python and C++ for test automation, debugging, data analysis, test tooling, and troubleshooting hardware/software integration issues.
• Experience defining verification plans, test protocols, test procedures, test cases, and objective pass/fail criteria.
• Comfortable working in a regulated or safety-critical environment.

Benefits

Details about our benefits can be found here.

Pay

The pay range for this position in (Cambridge, MA) is $114,000 to $182,000. The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

Schedule

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

Contact

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