Sr R&D Firmware Engineer
Boston Scientific21 hours ago
Maple Grove, MN, USASenior
Base Salary
$85k - $162k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the team through firmware design, implementation, documentation, testing, and support for medical devices.
- Communicate project status, progress, risks, priorities, and deliverables to stakeholders.
- Analyze, evaluate, and verify firmware and system requirements using firmware engineering best practices.
- Document firmware development activities in accordance with approved procedures and standards.
- Provide technical guidance, mentor junior engineers, and support team members in hardware and firmware practices.
- Drive process improvements and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Participate in design and development reviews to ensure technical quality and compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Two to six years or more of relevant work experience depending on the qualifying degree: six years with a bachelor's degree, four years with a master's degree, or two years with a doctorate.
- Experience developing firmware in the medical device industry.
- Proficiency developing bare-metal firmware for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
- Experience documenting firmware deliverables in compliance with IEC 62304 and applicable FDA guidance.
- Strong programming skills in C and C++.
- Ability to lead firmware development teams and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Preferred qualifications include Atlassian experience, hardware debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG, knowledge of ISRs, DMA, RTOS, and control theory, custom hardware interfacing, firmware build and testing automation, product security firmware, and use of artificial intelligence tools for development productivity.
Benefits
- Fully on-site work model requiring five days per week in the assigned Boston Scientific office.
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
- Boston Scientific offers employee benefits and may provide variable compensation or incentives subject to plan eligibility and requirements.
About Boston Scientific
Boston Scientific designs and manufactures implantable and minimally invasive medical devices used by physicians to diagnose and treat cardiovascular, endoscopic, urological, neurological, and other conditions. It sells these products and related therapies to hospitals and health systems worldwide through a direct sales model and distributors. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, it is publicly traded on the NYSE (BSX) with offerings spanning stents, catheters, electrophysiology, and neuromodulation systems.