Staff Software Engineer, R&D
Position Summary
The Staff Software Engineer functions as a technical leader and individual contributor responsible for design and implementation for significant aspects of projects assigned. This role is designed for a strategically minded engineer who excels at translating business and product requirements into flawless software execution. The Staff Engineer may mentor and provide direction to junior engineers as needed.
Key Accountabilities
Systemic Architectural Ownership: Lead the macro-level technical design, architectural layout, and implementation of critical software subsystems and components.
Technical Execution: Drive the development of robust, and deterministic software systems in C++ and Qt.
End-to-End Delivery Assurance: Own the creation of critical software lifecycle deliverables, ensuring traceability across requirements, design documentation, source code, and validation protocols.
Rigorous Risk & Quality Management: Conduct and enforce objective architecture reviews, design verification, code analysis, risk mitigation, and reliability assessments.
Compliance Standardization: Master and implement company quality processes, producing objective evidence that strictly aligns with FDA, IVDR, and international regulatory guidelines.
Strategic Project Leadership: Provide decisive technical direction on core projects, optimizing development workflows, enforcing milestone accountability, and eliminating engineering bottlenecks.
Talent & Process Gatekeeping: Actively participate in technical interviews to vet future department personnel and continuously audit/improve internal software engineering processes.
Tooling Optimization: Architect and deploy internal software development tools to maximize team efficiency and engineering velocity.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a strictly related quantitative field required.
Minimum ten (10) years of professional software development experience engineering complex embedded systems with a definitive history of successfully launching commercial products to market.
Deep, expert-level proficiency in ANSI C and C++.
Skills & Capabilities
Mastery of object-oriented design (OOD) methods, UML modeling, and full-lifecycle software product development within structured Agile methodologies.
Systems thinking with advanced understanding of complex Software Architectural challenges, resource constraints, and memory management when designing embedded systems.
Proven ability to accurately estimate engineering work durations, dependencies, and risk factors based strictly on high-level, ambiguous requirements.
Deep comprehension of real-time concepts on embedded Linux or RTOS platforms, including multi-threaded execution, memory safety, and inter-process communication.
High proficiency with modern configuration management and CI/CD development ecosystems (Git, Jenkins, JIRA).
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear, actionable business strategies for nontechnical stakeholders.
Pay
The annual base salary range for this role is currently $150,000 to $185,000. This is a bonus-eligible position.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) plan retirement benefits with an employer match.
Paid vacation and sick leave.