Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

MiniMed; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

MiniMed seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test for Embedded Software/Firmware to lead verification and validation of pump firmware. You will build automated test software, libraries, and CI/CD integrations across device interfaces and hardware/software integration, ensuring patient safety and compliance.

The role emphasizes risk-based testing, cross-functional collaboration, and leadership in embedded test practices, with experience in Python/JavaScript and real-time embedded

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with embedded firmware verification and validation in medical devices is preferred.
• Proven ability to design and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded systems.
• Familiarity with UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, or BLE communication protocols is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and libraries for embedded device workflows.
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines and manage test execution and reporting.
• Perform functional, integration, and regression testing of embedded firmware and hardware interfaces.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure traceability and evidence.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Test automation

Embedded testing

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree (MS/PhD)

Tools

HIL/SIL environments

Device simulators

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 20 Oct 2026

At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.

About the Role

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Embedded Software/Firmware is a coding-focused individual contributor responsible for verification and validation (V&V) of embedded software used in insulin-pump systems. This role develops and maintains automated test software, reusable libraries, frameworks, and CI/CD integrations while executing risk-based testing across firmware, embedded applications, device interfaces, hardware/software integration, and supporting test infrastructure. The engineer partners closely with software, systems, hardware, quality, and regulatory teams to build high-confidence evidence that product requirements are met and patient safety is protected.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

Embedded Test Automation & Engineering Tools

• Design, develop, version, and maintain production-quality automated test scripts, test library functions, framework APIs, utilities, and test data using Python and JavaScript.

• Write clean, maintainable, and well-structured test software for embedded-device workflows including device configuration, communication interfaces, logging, data capture, and result analysis.

• Integrate, troubleshoot, and maintain automated tests in source control and CI/CD pipelines, including test execution, quality gates, reporting, and failure diagnostics.

• Debug test scripts, framework libraries, CI/CD failures, and test-environment issues; identify root causes and implement durable corrective fixes.

Embedded Pump Software Verification & Validation

• Develop and execute test strategies, test plans, protocols, test cases, and reports for embedded pump firmware.

• Analyze software and system requirements, architecture, interfaces, and risk controls to identify test conditions, gaps, and traceable verification evidence.

• Perform functional, integration, regression, reliability, fault-injection, and recovery testing of embedded device behavior.

• Validate hardware/software interactions using hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and software-in-the-loop (SIL) benches, simulators, test fixtures, and laboratory equipment.

• Investigate defects, isolate root causes, document reproducible evidence, and partner with development teams through resolution and verification.

AI-Enabled Quality Engineering

• Apply AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve requirements analysis, test design, test-data generation, log analysis, defect triage, and test documentation.

• Evaluate AI-enabled testing capabilities for accuracy, traceability, security, intended use, and fit within a regulated medical-device development environment.

• Use engineering judgment to review AI-generated outputs and ensure that test evidence remains accurate, reproducible, and compliant with established quality processes.

Quality, Risk & Regulatory Compliance

• Create and maintain objective V&V evidence, including traceability between requirements, risks, tests, results, deviations, and defects.

• Execute risk-based testing in accordance with design controls, applicable procedures, and relevant medical-device standards, including IEC 62304, ISO 13485, and risk-management processes.

• Support design reviews, risk analyses, audits, investigations, CAPAs, and release-readiness activities as needed.

• Identify quality risks and opportunities to improve test coverage, product reliability, and engineering processes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Embedded Software, Hardware, Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, and Manufacturing teams throughout the product lifecycle.

• Communicate test status, quality risks, defects, and recommendations clearly to technical and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to test engineers, share automation and embedded-test practices, and contribute as a senior member of the team.

Required Qualifications

Requires a bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

• Experience testing safety-critical embedded products, particularly medical devices or insulin-delivery systems, and firmware operating under real-time constraints.

• Experience using both Python and JavaScript for embedded test automation, and familiarity with reading C or C++ firmware to support test design and defect investigation.

• Experience designing, extending, or maintaining HIL/SIL environments, device simulators, or automated hardware test fixtures.

• Experience architecting reusable embedded test frameworks, device communication libraries, and test-bench control utilities.

• Experience integrating physical-device or HIL/SIL tests into CI/CD workflows, including device provisioning, bench availability, execution, reporting, and failure diagnosis.

• Experience responsibly using AI-assisted engineering tools to support embedded test development or analysis, with human review and appropriate controls for accuracy, traceability, security, and use in a regulated environment.

• Working knowledge of verification and validation, requirements traceability, risk-based testing, defect investigation, and root-cause analysis in a regulated environment.

• Experience testing embedded communication interfaces or protocols, such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, or Bluetooth Low Energy, as relevant to the product.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be