Embedded Software Architect

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Embedded Software Architect to own the technical architecture for regulated medical device software across the Sleep & Respiratory Care portfolio. This role sits at the center of our engineering organization — defining architecture and design for therapy devices, ventilators and connected-care platforms, and ensuring that what we build is safe, secure, compliant and sustainable.

You will operate as a hands-on technical authority: making design decisions, resolving complex technical risks, mentoring engineers, and representing software architecture in cross-functional and regulatory forums. This is a role for someone who wants deep technical ownership of products that directly improve patients' ability to breathe and sleep.

Technical Skills

• Deep expertise in C++(preferred) / C / Embedded C; strong grasp of real-time and resource-constrained design.
• RTOS concepts, scheduling, concurrency, task frameworks, memory and power optimisation.
• Microcontroller/SoC platforms (e.g. ARM Cortex-M / STM32 class), board bring-up and hardware-software integration.
• Communication protocols and connectivity — BLE/Bluetooth, cellular/modem, UART/SPI/I2C, and secure firmware update mechanisms.
• Software architecture practice — modelling, design patterns, interface design, modularity and platform thinking.
• Verification fundamentals: unit verification, static analysis, code coverage, test automation and CI/CD (ADO / GitHub).
• Cybersecurity for embedded/connected devices: threat modelling, cryptography fundamentals, secure boot and signed updates.

Architecture & Technical Design

• Define, document and govern the software architecture for assigned products and platforms, including decomposition, interfaces, data flows and deployment topology.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts — SAD, SDD, interface specifications and design rationale — to regulated standards.
• Drive architectural decisions on real-time behaviour, memory and power constraints, connectivity (BLE/cellular/modem), and hardware-software integration.
• Lead design reviews, technical risk assessments and trade-off analyses; ensure decisions are recorded with clear rationale.
• Evaluate and drive modernisation, refactoring and reuse across platforms to reduce duplication and improve maintainability.

Regulated Product Development & Quality

• Ensure architecture and design comply with IEC 62304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971 (risk management) and applicable EU MDR / FDA requirements.
• Own end-to-end requirement-to-test traceability for assigned areas, ensuring design elements trace to requirements and verification evidence.
• Contribute to software safety classification, hazard analysis, FMEA and risk-control design.
• Support CAPA, CAP and DCR activities with root-cause analysis, impact assessment and design remediation.
• Ensure adherence to internal QMS processes and design-history-file completeness.

Security & Secure SDLC

• Embed secure-by-design principles into architecture; support threat modelling and security risk assessment.
• Own architecture-level inputs to SBOM, SOUP/OTS assessment, VAR and vulnerability remediation.
• Champion secure SDLC adoption within the engineering teams.

Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner with Engineering Managers on technical feasibility, effort estimation, sequencing and resource planning.
• Represent software architecture with cross-functional partners — Systems, Quality, Regulatory, Product, PMO, Security, Operations and Manufacturing.
• Surface technical risks, dependencies and decision points early, with proposed solutions rather than escalations alone.
• Provide technical input into release planning, Release Train cadence and sprint execution within an Agile/ADO way of working.

Capability Building & Technical Leadership

• Mentor and coach engineers; act as buddy/mentor within the competency ramp-up framework and support progression toward independent (L2) execution.
• Lead knowledge-transfer for products transitioning ownership into the India organisation.
• Drive engineering excellence: code quality, design standards, review discipline, static analysis and unit-verification rigour.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering (e.g. GitHub Copilot across the V-model) to improve productivity without compromising quality or compliance.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing sessions, technical forums and reusable engineering assets.

You're the right fit if

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• 10+ years in embedded software development, with a minimum of 5 years in an architect or lead-architect capacity.
• Proven track record architecting embedded products in a regulated domain — medical devices strongly preferred (aerospace, automotive safety or industrial safety-critical also considered).
• Demonstrated ownership of a product or platform architecture through full lifecycle, from concept to release and sustaining.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; can explain complex trade-offs to non-software audiences.
• Strong technical influence without authority — able to align cross-functional stakeholders on architecture decisions.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. This is an office-based role, which means working in person at least 3 days per week.