Embedded System Firmware Engineer

at  SHL Medical AG

SHL Medical is the world-leading solution provider in the design, development, and manufacturing of advanced drug delivery systems with more than 5000 employees worldwide. Our customers include top pharmaceutical and biotech companies from around the globe that require innovative devices such as auto-injectors or pen injectors to effectively deliver their drugs. Headquartered in Switzerland since late 2018, with sites in Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent
• 3+ years’ experience in design and implementation of firmware for medical grade devices or another highly regulated industry
• Strong experience in C and C++ in embedded programming field
• Strong understanding of architecture patterns for embedded systems
• High level of responsibility, ownership, and accountability
• Fluent in English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proactive and results-oriented problem solver
• Knowledge of agile software development processes and tools (CI/CD, Git, testing)
• Experience in implementation of PID control loop mechanisms
• Knowledge of interfaces such as PWM, I2C, SPI, RS232, USB
• You enjoy working with people from different departments, cultures, and hierarchy levels

RELEVANT QUALIFICATION/EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Background in medical (device) software development (ISO 13485, IEC 62304)
• Knowledge in cybersecurity for embedded software
• Scrum experience

• Design and development of embedded software in an interdisciplinary team
• Implementing efficient code for memory usage, power consumption, execution speed and safety
• Integration of software with hardware components, ensuring seamless operation between the different digital and analog components
• Conducting testing to identify and fix defects in the software. This includes unit testing, integration testing and system-level testing
• Definition and documentation of software architecture
• Participation in the specification of software requirement for our devices
• Work in our emerging technology team and contribute to the definition of new electro-mechanical device concepts
• Ensure the quality and traceability of implementations with documentation, testing, design and code reviews
• Actively support our efforts to extend our tool suite and automate our processes
• Software compliance with medical industry standards, regulatory requirements and quality management system