Company Overview:
Lexington Medical, Inc. is a medical device company developing and manufacturing minimally invasive surgical stapling solutions in the Boston area. With the highest standards in design engineering and smart manufacturing, our team delivers disruptive technology to healthcare providers, improving surgical outcomes for patients in a thriving $6B+ surgical stapler market. Our products combine precision mechanics, embedded intelligence, and real-time control to deliver clinically superior outcomes in the operating room.
Rooted in a talent-dense culture, we are committed to innovation, foster continuous growth, and achieve great heights together. At Lexington Medical, Inc., you will have the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of patients worldwide and thrive in a fast-growing MedTech company.
Role Overview:
We are hiring a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our R&D team at Lexington Medical, Inc. in Bedford, MA (near Boston). In this role, you will lead the design, development, and integration of embedded systems within our advanced surgical stapling platform. This role combines hands-on technical execution with leadership responsibilities, offering the opportunity to shape software architecture, elevate code quality, and mentor a growing engineering team. The embedded software in our platform operates under tight real-time, safety-critical constraints, coordinating electromechanical subsystems where milliseconds and failure modes matter.
This position is ideal for a senior engineer who enjoys technical leadership and mentorship and may also be a strong fit for current or aspiring managers who want to remain deeply involved in hands-on development while helping guide the direction of a growing embedded software team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of real-time embedded software for Lexington’s surgical stapling platform and supporting devices, primarily on ARM Cortex-M or equivalent microcontroller-based systems, with an emphasis on modular, scalable, and maintainable design.
- You will set technical standards, influence architectural direction, and raise the bar for embedded software quality across the team
- Develop, integrate, and maintain low-level drivers, communication interfaces such as SPI, I²C, CAN, UART, and USB, and application-layer logic, while continuously improving firmware quality, traceability, and long-term codebase health.
- Establish and uphold embedded software development standards, documentation practices, and verification processes in alignment with IEC 62304 and FDA Class II/III medical device requirements.
- Partner closely with electrical, mechanical, and systems engineers to ensure seamless hardware-software integration, and collaborate with regulatory, quality, and manufacturing teams to support compliance, verification and validation activities, and product submissions.
- Lead and mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and system-level problem solving, while working with management to identify technical gaps, staffing needs, and training opportunities that strengthen the embedded software team.
- Own technical deliverables, schedules, and documentation for embedded software projects, supporting planning, estimation, prioritization, and proactive identification and mitigation of technical and compliance risks throughout the product lifecycle.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of embedded software development experience, preferably within regulated or safety-critical industries.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++ for embedded systems, with additional experience in Python or C# considered a plus.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS-based systems, embedded development workflows, and hardware-level debugging tools.
- Proven ability to integrate software with complex electromechanical systems and work effectively across hardware and software boundaries.
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a hands-on technical environment.
- Deep understanding of software quality systems, documentation control, and risk management.
- Working knowledge of version control and issue tracking tools such as Git and JIRA.
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Company Overview & Disclaimer:
Lexington Medical, Inc. is a surgical stapling company based in Bedford, MA, developing smart surgical technology for minimally invasive procedures. We are not affiliated with Lexington Medical Center. We’re hiring top engineers and medical device sales professionals to help us grow and improve outcomes for patients worldwide.
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What We Do
Lexington Medical is singularly focused on making the best surgical stapler in the world. A high-growth, ambitious Boston-based medical device manufacturer with exacting technical and talent standards, Lexington develops advanced engineering and smart manufacturing in-house to deliver disruptive innovation. We are proud to provide surgeons a better choice in surgical stapling.
Our AEON Endostapler offers industry-best clinical performance across a wide range of surgical specialties. Working closely with leading physicians, our design approach allows us to be nimble and responsive to deliver a continuously improving product.
WE’RE HIRING! We have vigilantly cultivated a team of the most talented, collaborative, and creative people and are always looking to add teammates to our high-performance environment. Our employees at all levels manage projects that have a direct impact on patient care. If you are inspired to join a company that is solving problems that others have said “can’t be solved,” please visit us at www.lexington-med.com/careers.
