R&D Engineer (Software)

Petal Surgical; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Petal Surgical is seeking software engineers to define architectures for medical device software that interfaces with robotic and imaging hardware. You will contribute to design control procedures, build middleware and HALs, and prototype user interfaces to advance R&D and hardware integration.

The role emphasizes writing robust requirements, performing design reviews, and creating automated tests to achieve high code coverage in a regulated medical environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum: a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related area.
• At least 3 years as a software developer in ISO 62304 compliant environments with safety-critical requirements.
• At least 3 years of hardware integration with software using Python and/or C++.

Responsibilities

• Definition of Software Subsystem architecture as required by design control procedures to support various hardware interfaces.
• Implementation of system software (middleware, HALs, algorithms) for robot, imaging & therapy control systems.
• Rapid software UI prototyping to enable System R&D and integration with new hardware as available.
• Write, review, and maintain requirements for the system software for one or more subsystems; participate in design reviews.
• Build automated testing (including hardware simulators) to support unit and verification testing with 80%+ code coverage.

Skills

Python

C++

Software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related area

Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related area

Job description

**Responsibilities**

• Definition of Software Subsystem architecture as required by design control standard operating procedures to support various hardware interfaces.
• Implementation of system software (middleware, hardware abstraction layers, and algorithms, as needed) for robot, imaging & therapy control systems.
• Rapid software UI prototyping to enable System R&D and integration with new hardware as it becomes available.
• Write, review, and maintain requirements for the system software for one or more software subsystems to successfully achieve company milestones. Participate in design reviews.
• Build automated testing (including hardware simulators and stubs) to support automated testing frameworks (unit tests, verification testing) providing 80%+ code test coverage.

**Job Qualifications.**

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related area.
• At least 3 years experience as a software developer in a ISO 62304 compliant software development environment with safety critical requirements.
• At least 3 years experience integrating hardware (i.e. robot, imaging, control hardware) with a software system using Python and/or C++.
• Ability to work within an environment rich with unsolved science and technology challenges, and a dynamic team committed to changing the fundamentals of surgery.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related area.
• Experience taking one or more products to market and building the interface between the software system and hardware peripherals and maintaining the requirements and unit tests.
• Experience working in a regulated environment supporting a released medical device product.
• Experience writing lower level software for microcontrollers in C/C++.

Level: Entry/Sr.