Director of Software Engineering — BCI Platform

Blackrock Neurotech LLC; Salt Lake City (UT); In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Blackrock Neurotech is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery for our next-generation brain-computer interface platform. You will guide a high-performance software team across embedded systems, edge computing, AI/ML platforms, and distributed services in a regulated medical device environment.

You will partner across hardware, data science, clinical, cybersecurity, and strategy to establish software as a core capability and ensure successful

Competenze

• '10+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership.'
• 'Experience leading a team from the ground up and scaling processes.'
• 'Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent in a technical field.'
• 'Experience architecting high-performance software across embedded, edge, distributed, or cloud.'
• 'Experience in medical device industry or regulated product environment.'
• 'Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 14971, QMSR/ISO 13485 preferred.'
• 'Experience with Python and/or languages used in high-performance or embedded systems.'
• 'Experience with embedded Linux, CI/CD, automated testing.'
• 'Cybersecurity considerations for connected medical devices.'
• 'Ability to influence senior engineers and executives.'

Mansioni

• Own the architecture and technical direction for high-performance BCI software spanning device, edge, and distributed environments.
• Build the high-bandwidth, low-latency platforms to run machine learning algorithms developed by the AI/ML teams.
• Create and maintain an integrated software roadmap that translates product, clinical, and organizational priorities into clear technical plans and milestones.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a software engineering team, establishing clear expectations while creating an environment of trust, accountability, and strong technical judgment.
• Serve as a player-coach, remaining technically engaged through architecture and design reviews, critical problem solving, and hands-on contribution where it will have the greatest impact.
• Partner with AI/ML teams to define the inference runtime, model deployment path, versioning, and monitoring required to run ML safely on a regulated device.
• Establish scalable software engineering practices, development infrastructure, testing approaches, and processes appropriate for a regulated medical device environment.
• Navigate complex dependencies across hardware, clinical, pre-clinical, data science/AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and other technical teams to keep development moving forward.
• Develop resource, hiring, and budget plans aligned with the software roadmap and future organizational needs.
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and cross-functional leaders to ensure software architecture, development practices, documentation, and validation support applicable medical device requirements.
• Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, risks, and progress clearly to audiences ranging from individual engineers to executive leadership

Conoscenze

Leadership

Software architecture

Embedded systems

AI/ML pipelines

Regulatory compliance

Medical devices

CI/CD

Python

Embedded Linux

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder comms

Team building

Architectural reviews

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Strumenti

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Descrizione del lavoro

Blackrock Neurotech is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead architecture, roadmap, and delivery for our next-generation brain-computer interface platform. You will guide a high-performance software team across embedded systems, edge computing, AI/ML platforms, and distributed services in a regulated medical device environment.

You will partner across hardware, data science, clinical, cybersecurity, and strategy to establish software as a core capability and ensure successful