Staff Embedded Software Engineer, R&D - Cork, Carrigtwohill IDA Business & Technology Park Innovation Centre

Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

Who we want:
As a Staff R&D Embedded SW Engineer, you will perform a wide variety of technical work in planning, design and implementation of embedded software for medical devices used by surgeons and healthcare surgical staff to allow them to plan and perform their procedures.  This role will be a key contributor to the embedded software development process of embedded medical devices that supports our electrosurgery portfolio.

What you will do:
Technical Responsibilities:
• Conduct or design advanced prototyping and testing
• Conduct advanced problem solving, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against component and sub-system requirements
• Conduct and design research and studies to support advanced product design
• Translate user needs to design inputs/specifications and produce advanced component and sub-system level designs
• Analyze and correct complex product design issues, using independent judgment
• Independently balance design tradeoffs while designing a component of the system
• Develop and design software systems per requirements and architecture defined
• Code development time/resource estimation to support projects
• Generate and review the necessary documents to support the project. (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/test)
Business Responsibilities:
• Advance solutions by applying in-depth knowledge of customer needs, market and competitive offerings
• Apply detailed knowledge of clinical procedures to author design inputs
• Support Voice of Customer sessions internally and with clinicians
• Demonstrate developing financial acumen
Med Device Compliance:
• Be proficient with and mentor others in usage of industry standards, including design requirements and test strategies per applicable regulations
• Lead creation and refinement of engineering documentation, such as the Design History file
• Follow and mentor others on R&D procedures like design controls and risk management, per the Quality Management System
General Responsibilities:
• Work cooperatively with R&D, Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Clinical, Marketing and Project Management to ensure project success as a leader on the team
• Identify and support the creation of or improvements to procedures, policies, processes, systems, and technology
• Support and execute segments of complex product development to advance projects through the design /development/launch process
• Contribute to product development from concept through release
• Deliver high quality results with passion, energy and drive to meet business priorities
• Build relationships and influence across the engineering groups within the business
• Design, develop, modify, evaluate and verify software components for medical devices
• In code reviews apply design principals, coding standards and best practices

Minimum Qualifications (Required):
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/ Computer Science or related discipline & 4+ years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications (Strongly desired):
Technical Skills:
• Knowledgeable programming skills in C and C++. Design new components applying various concepts design concepts and patterns

Design and Development Skills:
• Knowledgeable with integrated development environments (IDE) for projects
• Knowledgeable with tools for static/dynamic analysis, memory management, code coverage and techniques for analyzing software
• Knowledge in integration and deployment processes using microcontrollers. ST microcontrollers preferred.

Software Process Skills:
• Software Development Life Cycle processes
• Knowledge in creating estimates for code implementation time/resource for assigned tasks and projects
• Knowledge from using Application Lifecycle Management /Traceability tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards applied to the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

Preferred Skills / Engineering tools:

• Understands the theory and methods of Embedded Software (C/C++) and can apply them under minimal supervision while demonstrating:
• Proficiency in designing, developing, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance of embedded software
• Ability to analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of the embedded system resources.
• Ability to prototype and bench test designs.
• Proficiency in writing device drivers from scratch or debugging/enhancing device drivers on an embedded processor. E
• Expertise in problem solving, root cause analysis, identify potential solutions, and evaluate them against requirements.
• Proficiency in conducting research and studies to support product design.

Travel Percentage: None