Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer | Medical Devices

Blue-Sages-1; Maple Grove (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue-Sages-1 is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to develop, maintain, verify, and document the software on a medical device. You will work on Linux-based console control firmware, collaborating with hardware, FPGA, systems, quality, and regulatory stakeholders.

Responsibilities include implementing embedded C/C++ features across various components, diagnosing defects, and ensuring deterministic behavior, timing, and safe device responses.

Qualifications

• Professional experience developing production embedded software in C and C++ for medical devices.
• Strong knowledge of C++11 or later, including memory ownership, low-level data handling, interfaces, and debugging.
• Experience with Linux-based embedded systems, cross-compilation, shell tools, and build systems such as Make.
• Experience debugging concurrent systems using threads, mutexes, queues, timers, and synchronization primitives.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain embedded C and C++ features across drivers, managers, state-machine logic, data collection, and signal-processing components.
• Diagnose defects using source inspection, logs, target-device behavior, hardware interfaces, and reproducible test cases.
• Design changes that preserve deterministic behavior, timing requirements, error handling, and safe device responses.
• Develop unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop, and regression tests appropriate to the change and available test infrastructure.
• Follow all applicable quality-system procedures.

Skills

Embedded C

C++11+

Linux-based development

Multithreading

Tools

Make

Shell tools

Cross-compilation

Yocto/OpenEmbedded

Docker/Podman

Jenkins

Job description

Blue-Sages-1 is seeking an experienced embedded software engineer to develop, maintain, verify, and document the software on a medical device. You will work on Linux-based console control firmware, collaborating with hardware, FPGA, systems, quality, and regulatory stakeholders.

Responsibilities include implementing embedded C/C++ features across various components, diagnosing defects, and ensuring deterministic behavior, timing, and safe device responses.