Remote Principal Systems Architect, Medical Device Platform

iRhythm; United States; Remote; USD 198,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

iRhythm Technologies is seeking a Principal Architect to define and lead the software architecture vision across device and digital ecosystem, including firmware, cloud services, analytics, data pipelines, clinician and patient apps, AI/ML platforms, and operations.

You will drive architectural excellence, ensure security, scalability, regulatory compliance, and align with product strategy, while influencing senior stakeholders across R&D, product, data science, security, and IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering or architecture for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience with regulated/high-reliability systems in medical/health tech.
• Expertise in microservices, event-driven systems, data pipelines, observability, DevOps/SRE, cloud-native tech.
• Ability to influence executive teams as a senior IC.
• Excellent communication of complex technical concepts to business stakeholders.
• Proven ability to partner with cross-functional leaders in product, security, regulatory, data science, and infra.

Responsibilities

• Define multiyear architecture strategy for product software systems.
• Establish architectural principles and reference architectures.
• Lead cross-functional architecture forums and governance.
• Guide systems decomposition, API strategies, data models, cloud architectures.
• Review proposals and design decisions across R&D teams.
• Mentor engineering leads and architects.
• Collaborate with product, security, regulatory, and quality teams.
• Bridge off-device and on-device systems for end-to-end workflows.

Skills

Software architecture

Cloud architectures

Large-scale distributed systems

Regulated systems

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

iRhythm Technologies is seeking a Principal Architect to define and lead the software architecture vision across device and digital ecosystem, including firmware, cloud services, analytics, data pipelines, clinician and patient apps, AI/ML platforms, and operations.

You will drive architectural excellence, ensure security, scalability, regulatory compliance, and align with product strategy, while influencing senior stakeholders across R&D, product, data science, security, and IT.