Staff Software Development Engineer - Embedded Systems

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Staff Software Development Engineer - Embedded Systems 

Staff Software Development Engineer - Embedded Systems – Indianola, Pa

PURPOSE

You will be involved in all aspects of the product development lifecycle from requirements to delivery in an agile scrum framework. You will work closely with the Bayer product managers, and various cross functional teams to deliver world-class solutions to Bayer customers.You will design and develop high-quality medical devices exhibiting excellent performance that meets product requirements and exceeds customer satisfaction.

This position will be responsible to perform software development of medical devices to deliver a high-quality product that meets or exceeds customer expectations and meets FDA design controls.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Think big; bring fresh ideas and approaches to design and develop innovative solutions in medical device to meet or exceed customer satisfaction;
• Evaluate different design choices, prototype new technology, and implement technical solutions;
• Understand business impact of design choices, and make technical trade-offs using sound judgement;
• Adopt engineering best practices around software development;
• Achieve understanding of product requirement and software requirement to design and develop medical device and improve customer value;
• Achieve understanding of software risk analysis and its impact on design and implementation of medical device;
• Delivers high-quality and scalable architecture designs and code; Ensures consistency across teams;
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code;
• Leads design and implementation of software for embedded devices using SDLC process for medical device development;
• Consistently contribute to solving organization-wide problems including shared platforms, libraries, and frameworks;
• Evaluate existing applications to refactor, update and add new features;          
• Identify opportunities to develop new and better solutions;
• Participate in code reviews of other software engineers, and design reviews;
• Develop any technical documentation needed to accurately represent application design and code;
• Ensures the development initiatives of Bayer Radiology medical devices complies and adheres to Bayer Standard Operating Procedures that meets regulatory standards and guidance such as :
  • FDA 21 CFR 820.30 – Design Controls;
  • FDA Cybersecurity in Medical Devices;
  • IEC 62304 – Software in a Medical Device;
• Effectively collaborates within cross-functional teams across multiple geographies to convey problems, opportunities, solutions, and results in the medical device development;
• Manages own work activities to given objectives.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or Electrical Engineering;
• Several years of relevant work experience in software engineering including all phases of SDLC;
• Good understanding of software development processes, software architecture and data structure.
• Several years of experience in programming languages and framework in a medical device development or in a regulated industry: C and C++;
• Strong knowledge with MISRA C 2012 standards;
• Several years of experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking in real-time operating systems (RTOS) in a medical device development or in a regulated industry;
• Several years of proven experience in communication serial protocols using SPI, I2C and UART to communicate with peripheral sensor IC’s;
• Working knowledge of tools and technologies including GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, static analysis such as SonarQube, CI/CD GitHub pipelines.;
• Experience in developing software in a resource-constrained environment;
• Experience in debugging complex embedded software with JTAG, Oscilloscope, and various IDEs such as IAR EWARM, MPLAB, Tornado, Code Composer Studio, Eclipse, etc.;
• Must have a good knowledge of electronic circuit designs and the ability to read electronic schematic diagrams;
• Working knowledge on OS such as Windows;
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and manage priorities accordingly.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience in software engineering including all phases of SDLC;
• 5 or more years of experience in programming languages and framework in a medical device development or in a regulated industry: C and C++;
• 5 years of experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking in real-time operating systems (RTOS) in a medical device development or in a regulated industry;
• 5 years of proven experience in communication serial protocols using SPI, I2C and UART to communicate with peripheral sensor IC’s.