Senior Staff Embedded Software Engineer

You will design, implement, test, and verify embedded and Linux controls software for surgical robots. You will integrate servo drives and peripherals, diagnose real-time and hardware issues, analyze failure modes, implement safety diagnostics, collaborate through reviews, and develop automated unit and integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test embedded and Linux controls software for surgical robotic systems
• Perform hardware and software failure mode and effect analysis and implement risk-mitigation diagnostics
• Integrate EtherCAT servo drives and redundant control-diagnostic checks
• Debug peripheral hardware, Linux kernel latency, and real-time safety issues
• Bring up new hardware peripherals and assess motor-controller failure implications
• Implement and optimize software for microcontroller RTOS and PREEMPT_RT Linux environments
• Collaborate through pair programming, code reviews, and design discussions
• Test software with and without hardware using virtual fixtures when appropriate
• Develop testable designs that support unit and integration test coverage

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Strong proficiency in modern C++
• Ability to write real-time C/C++ for bare-metal systems or FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, or QNX
• Ability to implement and optimize servo-drive control loops
• At least 5 years developing C++ robotics software interfacing with hardware
• At least 5 years deploying and testing Linux software and RTOS or bare-metal firmware
• Experience with mission-critical software
• Knowledge of I2C, SPI, and CAN
• Ability to implement Linux user-space drivers and custom wire protocols
• Ability to analyze latency and jitter in distributed systems
• Ability to read electrical schematics
• Ability to work on-site for hands-on software integration

Benefits

• Company-paid benefits package