Lead the development of embedded firmware for medical devices, integrating systems with microcontrollers and wireless technologies, while ensuring compliance with FDA regulations.
About Avive:
Avive Solutions, Inc. (https://avive.life) is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are a dynamic organization that builds elegant, creative solutions to solve complex problems. Ultimately, our mission is for all cardiac arrest victims to have rapid access to life-saving defibrillation.
Avive is taking a fresh approach to addressing this decades-old problem by innovating AED technology, coupled with a first-of-its-kind software platform solution to enable a quicker and more streamlined response to SCA emergencies. We believe that this unique combination of deploying advanced – yet still accessible – hardware, and software, has the potential to revolutionize out-of-hospital cardiac arrest response and massively impact SCA survival rates.
Check out this short video that shows a glimpse of how our team is working to re-think cardiac arrest response and save lives!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p4zfOWo62E
Learn more about working at Avive:https://avive.life/careers/
About the Role:
We are seeking a Principal Firmware Engineer for a critical role within Avive’s R&D organization. This role is a player-coach that will develop and lead new embedded firmware systems from early design stages through production releases, maintenance, optimizations, and expansions. This position will architect, code, modify, debug, and optimize embedded firmware of life-saving medical products.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a technical leader for medical device firmware development and team of engineers
- Design, code, unit test, and debug applications in various software languages including C and C++ embedded programming for bare metal and/or RTOS
- Integrate firmware with embedded systems. Work with microcontrollers (e.g. ARM, PIC32), digital signal processors, and peripheral communication over SPI, I2C, UART, I2S, Single Wire Interfaces, I/O, and USB
- Experience working with wireless communication technologies including BLE, Wi-Fi, GNSS, and Cellular communication
- Experience reading electrical schematics, using basic EE laboratory equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, power supplies), and system debugging of electronics hardware and firmware systems
- Conduct code reviews, apply metrics for code quality, use secure coding standards, and participate in software verification activities
- Demonstrate solid understanding application of UML, Systems Thinking and state of the art software development practices
- Deliver design documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, code comments and clear testable code
- Recommend, solicit, and provision COTS software through company approved supplier management
- Assist in software verification and quality assurance procedure development
- Extensive experience working with Git and Jira
- Extensive experience in PCB board bring-up and use of basic EE laboratory equipment
- Experience in an FDA regulated environment applying IEC 62304
Required Education & Experience:
- BS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics or equivalent combination of relevant coursework and job-related experience.
- 15+ years of experience including a minimum of 5 years with medical devices
Bonus Points For:
- Proven work experience in firmware engineering using C and/or C++
- Experience with Bare Metal, RTOS, and Linux operating systems
- Experience with Python or other scripting languages
- Experience with at least one of the following technologies: ARM, PIC32, or DSP
- Familiarity with Cybersecurity concepts, fundamentals, and associated coding practices
- Experience with test-driven development, Agile with Scrum
- Experience working as an EE
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of the company to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
NOTE: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties or functions to be performed by the incumbent. Personnel are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties/functions requested by their supervisor.
Anticipated salary range: $180,000 - $210,000
Top Skills
Arm
Ble
C
C++
Cellular Communication
Embedded Systems
Git
Gnss
JIRA
Pic32
Python
Real-Time Operating Systems (Rtos)
Wi-Fi
Wireless Communication Technologies
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