Petal Surgical, Inc. R&D Engineer (Software) Redwood City, CA · Full time Company website

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[This posting is for candidate use only. No recruiters or staffing agencies. Unsolicited submissions will not be accepted or compensated.] For centuries now, surgery has been about invasive and painful manipulation of tissue with one or more tools. Even the most recent advances in the field have not been able to break this fundamental constraint. We are changing that. At Petal, we are on a mission to make incisionless surgery the standard of interventional care, for everyone, everywhere.

Responsibilities

As a software engineer, own software deliverables as needed to enable solutions for incisionless surgery.

• Definition of Software Subsystem architecture as required by design control standard operating procedures to support various hardware interfaces.
• Implementation of system software (middleware, hardware abstraction layers, and algorithms, as needed) for robot, imaging & therapy control systems.
• Rapid software UI prototyping to enable System R&D and integration with new hardware as it becomes available.
• Write, review, and maintain requirements for the system software for one or more software subsystems to successfully achieve company milestones.  Participate in design reviews.
• Build automated testing (including hardware simulators and stubs) to support automated testing frameworks (unit tests, verification testing) providing 80%+ code test coverage.

Job Qualifications.

Minimum qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related area.
• At least 3 years experience as a software developer in a ISO 62304 compliant software development environment with safety critical requirements. 
• At least 3 years experience integrating hardware (i.e. robot, imaging, control hardware) with a software system using Python and/or C++.  
• Ability to work within an environment rich with unsolved science and technology challenges, and a dynamic team committed to changing the fundamentals of surgery. 

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related area.
• Experience taking one or more products to market and building the interface between the software system and hardware peripherals and maintaining the requirements and unit tests.
• Experience working in a regulated environment supporting a released medical device product.
• Experience writing lower level software for microcontrollers in C/C++.

Level: Entry/Sr.