Embedded systems engineer Jobs in Richmond, CA

About the Company :

Openwater is creating next-generation open-source medical technologies that can enable us to diagnose and treat potentially 100’s of diseases with a single device. With this advancement comes the promise of treatment of debilitating diseases including cancer, mental disease, stroke, COVID / Long COVID and longevity treatments. We already have a trove of clinical data demonstrating the promise of our technology, and now Openwater is the world’s first open-source, open-patent, open-clinical-data, and open-safety-sharing company, centered on the new idea of the Silicon Hospital.

About the Role :

As an Embedded Software Engineer at Openwater, you will work with cross functional teams to develop highly innovative solutions for our open-source medical device platforms. You will be responsible for full stack software engineering including design, implementation, and verification. You must be a pro-active, strong problem solver, and an experienced designer with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and do what is needed in a start-up environment.

Responsibilities and Duties :

• Contribute to, or own, software development for a variety of products that require inputs from a cross functional team including engineering, customer service, operations, marketing, and quality.
• Maintain and support future development of applications that manage medical device information and perform data analysis on collected data.
• Develop and maintain embedded software for STM32 microcontrollers running FreeRTOS.
• Enhance and optimize Python communication libraries (USB interfaces) for interacting with embedded devices.
• Design, implement, and maintain Python QT5-based user interfaces for seamless product interaction.
• Debug, test, and troubleshoot software across embedded and Python environments.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to ensure smooth integration between software and hardware components.
• Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across all software layers.
• Support software release cycles and provide technical assistance for production-ready systems.
• Learn new technologies to plan and support future development of new applications.
• Support company goals and objectives, policies and procedures, design controls, and international / FDA regulations
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code adhering to best practices.
• Participate in software quality assurance activities required by the software development process.
• Responsible for documentation to support design history files (DHF’s), product design verification and validation software, verification and validation, production assembly instructions, and production testing
• Support other software efforts within the company

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