Location: McHenry, IL (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Salary starting at $125,000 with bonus potential
Build software that helps improve the lives of mothers and babies.
Medela is looking for an experienced Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Research & Development team and contribute to the development of innovative medical devices and related products.
This is a hands-on senior embedded software engineering role for an engineer who has experience developing complex software for medical devices and electromechanical systems. You will serve as a technical resource and subject matter expert while helping guide software architecture, development, integration, verification, and best practices across the engineering team.
This is NOT a general software, web, or application development position.
We are specifically seeking candidates with 6+ years of experience designing and implementing complex embedded software for medical devices.
What You'll Do
- Develop embedded software for medical devices using C, C++, and Python
- Serve as a technical expert for key embedded software features
- Translate product requirements into software requirements, architecture, and implementation
- Integrate software with microprocessor-based hardware and electromechanical systems
- Collaborate with electrical and mechanical engineers on hardware/software integration
- Conduct code reviews and promote software development best practices
- Develop and support unit, integration, system, and automated testing
- Support CI/CD, verification, validation, requirements, and traceability
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues using hardware and laboratory debugging tools
- Provide technical guidance and feedback to other software engineers
- Work collaboratively with global, cross-functional engineering teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Software, Computer, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 6+ years of professional embedded software development experience
- Medical device software development experience
- Strong C/C++ programming skills; Python experience
- Experience with microprocessors, RTOS, and embedded systems
- Experience with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, RS232, or RS485
- Experience with tools such as Git, Azure DevOps, IAR, or similar
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD
- Experience debugging hardware/software integration using laboratory tools
- Understanding of the medical device software lifecycle, design controls, verification, and traceability
- Knowledge of medical device standards such as IEC 62304 and ISO 14971
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with STM development environments or TouchGFX
- Experience with Altium or schematic review
- Experience with Bash, PowerShell, or YAML
- Experience working with global product development teams
What Makes Someone Successful
You're a hands-on senior embedded engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and working closely with hardware. You can work independently, provide technical guidance to others, and collaborate effectively across software, electrical, mechanical, systems, quality, and other engineering teams.
Important Candidate Requirements
Please apply only if you have:
- 6+ years of embedded software engineering experience
- Medical device software development experience
- Strong C/C++ experience
- Experience with microprocessor-based embedded systems
- Hardware/software integration and debugging experience
- Knowledge of medical device software development and regulatory requirements
This position is specifically for experienced medical-device embedded software engineers and is not a general application/software development role.
Why Join Medela?
You'll work on products that directly improve patient care while collaborating with a multidisciplinary engineering team dedicated to innovation, quality, and regulatory excellence. This is an opportunity to develop technology that makes a meaningful difference in the lives of families around the world.
- Competitive Salary plus bonus
- Comprehensive benefits plan
- 401K with match
- Money Purchase Pension Retirement Plan
- 16-week Paid Parental Leave
- Generous PTO package
- 14 paid holidays
- A great place to work!
For this position we only consider direct applications - thank you for your understanding.As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, protected veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, HIV/AIDs status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity (transgender status), weight, height or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance.https://mandatoryview.com/?LicenceId=e7c44cfe-6946-4b77-9939-493d186ba760&ProductType=OnlineApplicant&SubType=PG
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 6+ years of professional embedded software development experience
- Medical device software development experience
- Strong C and C++ programming skills
- Python experience
- Experience with microprocessors, RTOS, and embedded systems
- Experience with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, RS232, or RS485
- Experience with Git, Azure DevOps, IAR, or similar tools
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD
- Experience debugging hardware/software integration using laboratory tools
- Understanding of the medical device software lifecycle, design controls, verification, and traceability
- Knowledge of IEC 62304 and ISO 14971
- Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Experience with STM development environments or TouchGFX
- Experience with Altium or schematic review
- Experience with Bash, PowerShell, or YAML
- Experience working with global product development teams
What We Do
Through advancing research, observing natural behavior, and listening to our customers, Medela turns science into care while nurturing health for generations. Medela supports millions of moms, babies, patients, and healthcare professionals in more than 100 countries all over the world. As the healthcare choice for more than 6 million hospitals and homes across the globe, Medela provides the leading research-based breast milk feeding and baby products, healthcare solutions for hospitals, and clinical education. A family-owned company, Medela has 20 subsidiaries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, three production and warehouse facilities in Switzerland, the U.S and China and a worldwide distribution network in over 100 countries. With more than 1,500 employees, Medela is dedicated to developing breakthrough innovations that build better health outcomes and improve the lives of moms, babies and patients. Founded in 1961 by Olle Larsson, his son Michael Larsson serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2001. Annette Brüls is the CEO of the company since 2018. Medela is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, protected veteran status, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, HIV/AIDS status, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law or ordinance
