Change people’s lives and love what you do! Cochlear develops world-leading medical devices that help people hear. As a top 100 medical device company and market-leader in implantable hearing devices, more people choose a Cochlear-branded cochlear implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives.
Job Overview & Purpose
The Senior Lead Embedded Software Integration & Verification (ES I&V) Engineer is responsible for ensuring the quality, safety, stability, and regulatory compliance of Cochlear's embedded software platforms. Working closely with development teams throughout the product lifecycle, the role leads software integration, verification, issue investigation, release readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives.
The position also provides technical leadership, mentors team members, and drives the adoption of effective testing processes, automation, tools, and best practices to support the delivery of reliable medical device software.
Key Responsibilities
1. Governance and Compliance
- Define and support ES I&V governance frameworks and operating models across products and locations.
- Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and verification reports in accordance with medical device regulatory standards.
- Establish metrics to monitor ES I&V performance and progress.
- Implement effective processes for issue reporting, tracking, and management.
2. Integration and Verification
- Plan and coordinate component integration with development teams and product owners.
- Support continuous integration and configuration of embedded software components.
- Verify integration builds, investigate issues, and work with development teams to resolve them.
- Deliver stable embedded software platform releases and associated test software for final verification activities.
- Escalate issues through established tracking systems when required.
3. Planning and Stakeholder Coordination
- Collaborate with engineering leaders and stakeholders to plan ES I&V activities aligned with product roadmaps and development plans.
- Participate in product and service planning reviews from an ES I&V perspective.
4. Process, Infrastructure, and Tool Improvement
- Help define future ES I&V capabilities, infrastructure, and organizational needs.
- Develop, maintain, and improve ES I&V processes and best practices.
- Drive the adoption of modern testing methods, tools, and infrastructure.
- Improve efficiency and scalability through automation and platform-based approaches.
5. Technical Leadership
- Develop training materials and conduct workshops for team members and external partners.
- Ensure current and future verification capabilities meet business needs.
- Serve as a key technical point of contact for embedded software verification challenges.
- Coach engineers, share technical expertise, and support team development.
Team Role
As an individual contributor, you will:
- Follow quality processes and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute ideas that improve systems, tools, and processes.
- Comply with workplace health and safety requirements and report hazards, incidents, or injuries.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computing, Engineering, Science, or a related discipline.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in embedded software integration and verification within highly regulated industries such as medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or similar environments.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C, C++, C#, or similar languages.
- Experience debugging test scripts and developing test cases.
- Solid understanding of embedded software development methodologies, architectures, tools, and best practices.
- Experience with embedded software testing, including unit, integration, regression, smoke, stress, and system-level testing.
- Experience with test-driven development and automated testing approaches.
- Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) testing environments.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and experience using tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Perforce, TeamCity, Bamboo, Jira, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Perl.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Experience in medical device product development is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of active implantable medical devices and applicable regulatory requirements is advantageous.
- Experience using Microsoft Copilot or similar generative AI tools to improve engineering productivity and collaboration is beneficial.
In Summary
This role combines embedded software integration, verification, technical leadership, and quality assurance to ensure embedded software platforms are reliable, compliant, and ready for product release. The successful candidate will drive testing excellence, continuous improvement, and collaboration across engineering teams while supporting the delivery of safe and effective medical device solutions.
Cochlear Malaysia provides shared services to support Cochlear’s global operations. The growing team of professionals in Malaysia provides critical support in areas such as IT infrastructure and applications, development and testing, business intelligence development and support, procurement, customer service, service and repairs and returned device analysis engineering.
If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computing, Engineering, Science, or a related discipline
- Fluent written and spoken English
- At least 8 years of experience in embedded software integration and verification within a highly regulated industry
- Strong programming skills in Python, C, C++, C#, or similar languages
- Experience debugging test scripts and developing test cases
- Understanding of embedded software development methodologies, architectures, tools, and best practices
- Experience with unit, integration, regression, smoke, stress, and system-level embedded software testing
- Experience with test-driven development and automated testing
- Experience with Hardware-in-the-Loop and Software-in-the-Loop testing environments
- Understanding of CI/CD practices and experience with Git, Bitbucket, Perforce, TeamCity, Bamboo, Jira, or equivalent tools
- Experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts using Python, Bash, JavaScript, PowerShell, Perl, or similar scripting languages
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams
- Experience in medical-device product development
- Knowledge of active implantable medical devices and applicable regulatory requirements
- Experience using Microsoft Copilot or similar generative AI tools
Cochlear Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cochlear and has not been reviewed or approved by Cochlear.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible work policies—such as work-from-home options and structured time away—are seen as a major asset for many corporate and hybrid roles. Offerings include PTO, paid sick leave, floating holidays, parental leave, and hybrid/remote flexibility by department.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as comprehensive, with access to HSA/FSA and TeleHealth services. This forms a solid foundation within what is viewed as a standard corporate benefits package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness events, free office lunches, and food trucks are appreciated as day-to-day perks. Employee assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and employee hearing aid discounts add to the lifestyle-oriented offering.
Cochlear Insights
What We Do
Hear now. And always As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, at Cochlear (ASX: COH) we are committed to our mission to help people hear and be heard. Our story started more than four decades ago when Professor Graeme Clark pioneered the world's first multi-channel cochlear implant and created an entirely new treatment for hearing loss. Since our formation in 1981, we continue Professor Clark’s work to help people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a life full of hearing. We have provided more than 650,000 implantable devices. Each recipient helps form a global community of millions, through families, friends, colleagues, teachers and more. And they’re not just connected to their own community — each shares a link with each other and to Professor Clark’s childhood desire to help people hear. We aim to give people the best lifelong hearing experience and access to innovative future technologies. We understand the privilege of connecting people to a life lived with hearing. And we listen, respond and move with the times – to continue to bring hearing within reach of all those who need it. That's how we live our mission every day. Our global workforce of more than 4,000 people shares a collective determination to give more people the opportunity to enjoy a life of hearing. Cochlear’s global headquarters are on the campus of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia with regional headquarters in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas. Through our offices in over 180 countries we help people of all ages to hear. Social Media Terms of Use http://bit.ly/2qRMEvY
