Senior Embedded Software Engineer

About INOVIOINOVIO is a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help treat and protect people from HPV-related diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases. INOVIO’s technology optimizes the design and delivery of innovative DNA medicines that teach the body to manufacture its own disease-fighting tools. For more information, visit . Job summary

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer is responsible for the design, development, verification, maintenance, and sustaining support of safety-critical embedded software for electroporation and drug delivery medical devices. This role focuses on embedded C++ development, platform software, device drivers, electromechanical control, drug delivery, pulse generation, motor control, UI/display systems, battery powered systems, cybersecurity, hardware bring-up, and compliance with IEC 62304 and other applicable medical device standards.

Essential job functions and duties

Design and implement electromechanical control systems, including motor control, battery management, board bring up, bootloaders, firmware updates, diagnostics, and inter-processor communications

Design, develop, and maintain safety-critical embedded software for medical devices using modern C++ on microcontroller, RTOS, Embedded Linux, and Android platforms.

Develop platform software, BSPs, middleware, and device drivers supporting SPI, I2C, UART, USB, ADC/DAC, PWM, timers, displays, touchscreens, motors, sensors, and communication interfaces.

Develop embedded UI/display applications and system-level software features

Design and implement software controlling electroporation therapy delivery. Develop deterministic real-time software supporting therapy delivery, closed-loop control systems, safety monitoring, and precision timing requirements

Develop and maintain software lifecycle documentation, including requirements specifications, software designs, risk controls, verification protocols, and test reports. Perform code reviews, static analysis, unit testing, integration testing, and software verification activities.

Implement cybersecurity controls, including secure boot, authentication, encryption, vulnerability management, and secure software update mechanisms

Develop firmware, manufacturing test software, diagnostic tools, and engineering utilities to support product development, verification, manufacturing, debugging, compliance testing, and field service activities

Troubleshoot hardware and software issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other laboratory equipment

Collaborate with systems, electrical, mechanical, quality, regulatory, and cybersecurity teams

Participate in system requirements development, architecture definition, hazard analysis, risk control implementation, and allocation of system requirements to software components

Support CI/CD pipelines, automated build systems, configuration management, and continuous software process improvements initiatives

Provide sustaining engineering support for released products, including issue investigations, root cause analysis, field corrections, cybersecurity updates, and design improvements Complete other engineering duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum requirementsBS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field7+ years of experience in embedded software development, including development of complex real-time embedded systems using modern C++. Experience developing embedded applications on ARM Cortex-M processors, Linux, and/or Android platforms

Strong experience developing real-time embedded applications using RTOS frameworks such as ThreadX, FreeRTOS, RTX, Micrium OS, or similar operating systems.

Proven experience…