Senior Principal iOS Architect - Secure Medical BLE System

Insulet Corporation; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Insulet Corporation seeks a Senior Principal iOS Architect to define the vision and architecture for the patient-facing mobile app in a connected insulin-delivery system. The role requires hands-on leadership, architectural decisions, and collaboration with firmware, cloud, cybersecurity, and regulatory teams.

You will establish standards, mentor senior engineers, and ensure safety, security, and compliance across BLE, data integrity, and cloud synchronization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/EE/CE.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering, with recent iOS architecture experience.
• Deep Swift and Apple APIs knowledge; BLE on iOS with Core Bluetooth.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the iOS architecture for pump control, CGM data capture, local storage and cloud upload.
• Own BLE strategy: connection models, pairing, reconnection, data reliability, and firmware constraints.
• Set the technical vision for the iOS platform and translate into roadmaps and standards.
• Design for a regulated medical device with traceability, risk controls, and FDA design controls.
• Establish security and privacy architecture for PHI in transit and at rest (HIPAA, FDA expectations).
• Define data integrity rules for glucose and device data from capture to cloud reconciliation.
• Review designs and mentor engineers to preserve architectural intent.
• Collaborate with firmware, cloud, quality, regulatory teams on interfaces and hazard mitigations.
• Explore cross-platform options while keeping the UI native iOS.
• Identify risks early and drive mitigations for connectivity, battery, latency, and data loss.

Skills

Swift

Core Bluetooth

iOS Architecture

Security & HIPAA

Code maintainability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering

Tools

Xcode

Job description

Insulet Corporation seeks a Senior Principal iOS Architect to define the vision and architecture for the patient-facing mobile app in a connected insulin-delivery system. The role requires hands-on leadership, architectural decisions, and collaboration with firmware, cloud, cybersecurity, and regulatory teams.

You will establish standards, mentor senior engineers, and ensure safety, security, and compliance across BLE, data integrity, and cloud synchronization.