Staff Firmware Architect

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Staff Firmware Architect (Wilmington, MA)

The Medical Products Group at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer/ Architect to join their team in Wilmington, Massachusetts.  We’re looking for an analytical, detail-oriented teammate with demonstrated experience in firmware development. In this role, you will deliver high quality, performant, and production-quality firmware for ADI’s medical products.  You will collaborate with hardware, system, and test engineers through the complete product life cycle of medical products, from conception to deployment and maintenance.

Job Description:

• Conceptualize & Define Firmware architecture for a Medical Device with Cloud connectivity.
• Develop firmware, including device drivers, libraries, and multi-threaded applications on an embedded platform.
• Collaborate with product definers, system engineers, hardware & UX designers, bio-medical & test engineers to develop device software through the complete product life cycle, from conception to deployment and maintenance.
• Establish coding standards, architecture guidelines, and best practices to ensure high quality, maintainable, and testable code.
• Participate in technical reviews, root cause analysis, and debugging of complex firmware-related issues with internal partner divisions and external vendors across US and Asia.
• You will be involved in concept/system architecture, design, integration and prototype build/ debug/ testing across discipline, emphasizing emulation and “how do I break this”?
• Define and help ensure adherence to medical device software development processes as per industry and regulatory standards (e.g. IEC62304).

Requisite Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level C/C++ & Python programming skills
• 7+ years of experience with embedded Real-Time Operating Systems, such as FreeRTOS, Zephyr and Micro-COS.
• Hands-on design, development, and debugging skills in resource-constrained, low-power computational environments.
• Strong knowledge of ARM-based architectures and bus protocols, including UART, I2C, SPI, and USB.
• Hands-on experience developing integrating, building, and testing complex multi-threaded embedded applications that run on embedded Linux.
• Direct experience with SCM tools, such as GIT, SVN, Clearcase, Perforce, etc.
• Practical experience with defect tracking tools, including JIRA, Bugzilla, etc.
• Bachelors/ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering.

Nice to have:

• Prior medical device firmware development experience & knowledge of medical device standards, including IEC-62304 and IEC-14971.
• Understanding of wireless communication protocols, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and 3GPP cellular protocols.
• Programming skills in scripting languages such as Perl, Javascript, Bash, etc. and familiarity with embedded Linux
• Applied knowledge of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques and algorithm development on hardware platforms and fluency with MATLAB.

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• Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location, experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.

• This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.

• This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time, and other benefits.