Principal Software Engineer

CXC Global are working a Medical Devices developer who are looking for an experienced Software Engineer on a contract basis for 6 months. (Inside IR35). Details are: Responsibilities:

• Work within their highly technically diverse multidisciplinary teams
• Support the development and productisation of their custom computing devices, medical devices, and other devices for the hospital operating rooms.
• Drive collaboration with their hardware team to build and maintain compatible kernels/drivers for our hardware platforms.
• Architect, develop, test, and debug system services and hardware-dependent software applications.
• Coordinate and conduct code reviews for embedded software.
• Contribute to the software infrastructure to ensure seamless software deployments.
• Participate in the relevant security and regulatory compliance processes.
• Develop robust and secure-by-design software fit for a medical-grade system.
• Perform formal risk analysis activities, develop software mitigations, run verification. tests and participate in design transfer to manufacturing activities.

• BS/MS in Computer, Electrical, Electronics Engineering or equivalent
• Extensive experience working with Linux device drivers (V4L2/I2C/SPI/UART etc), tinkering with the Linux kernel and device trees.
• Extensive experience with varied Linux system components such as kernels, services, log management, rules, etc.
• Excellent networking knowledge
• Expert C/C++ and shell scripting knowledge.
• Experience working with custom Linux build systems (Yocto/Buildroot etc)
• Experience in system bring-up and hardware integration.
• Experience with over-the-air update mechanisms for embedded systems.
• Strong knowledge of security concepts (e.g. hardware root of trust, cryptographic key generation and usage)
• Fundamental knowledge of Linux diagnostic/benchmarking tools
• Basic Electronics knowledge – comfortable following a schematic and technical documentation/datasheet.
• Experience with software systems engineering and design principles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible - you can independently solve problems as they arise but are comfortable asking for help when you need it.
• Comfortable with complexity – being able to think through consequences of changes in a highly interconnected ecosystem over varied use environments.

• Experience working with deployed hardware systems and remote device management.
• Good Python programming skills
• Nvidia computing platforms experience.
• Microcontroller development experience.
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with automated testing
• Video processing/streaming experience, working with camera sensors, codecs and streaming protocols.
• Understanding of core security concepts
• Experience with software development for medical products or other safety-critical applications