Embedded Software & Test Engineer
About this role
As an embedded software & test engineer at Paradromics, you will work in tandem with neuroengineers and electronic designers to realize low-latency, high-fidelity brain machine implants. You'll own the firmware that sits between neural hardware and downstream inference, with a focus on real-time performance, power efficiency, and the reliability standards that come with an implantable medical device.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to multi-component embedded software, with an eye to improving reliability and latency.
- Write performant and understandable Rust.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and work prioritization.
- Develop and maintain automated tests, including unit tests, integration tests, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
- Profile and optimize firmware for memory usage, power consumption, and real-time performance.
- Write and maintain technical documentation, including architecture decisions, API references, and troubleshooting guides.
Required qualifications
- Proficiency in C++, Go, or Rust.
- Familiarity with embedded systems, including:
- handling tradeoffs between complexity and cost,
- Working within power and memory constraints,
- debugging live systems with JTAG or serial,
- interfacing with engineers at other levels of the stack,
- Experience with build tools like {c,}make.
- Experience building low level software running in Linux.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience interpreting schematics and datasheets.
- Experience building software under an RTOS, or bare metal.
- Experience building software with Yocto and/or Buildroot.
- Understanding of OTA updates and/or secure boot.
- Experience working on projects involving quality management systems, such as medical device development, aviation, finance, defense.
Company at a glance
ENABLING NEUROTECHNOLOGY
Paradromics builds brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies for seamless human-technology integration, designed to restore and enhance human capabilities. By capturing brain activity at the resolution of individual neurons, our high-data-rate platform creates a foundation for the most advanced BCI applications. With each new application, we will create human capabilities that transcend disabilities, and eventually, biology itself.
THE MISSION
Data-driven BCI-based technologies for brain health
Our technology will help millions with unmet medical needs suffering from paralysis and movement disorders to chronic pain, addiction, depression and other mental health conditions.
ABOUT
Matt Angle Ph.D. (CEO) founded Paradromics to build a high-data-rate BCI platform capable of addressing critical unmet clinical needs. With early funding from the NIH and DARPA, the company developed its core neurotechnology and, by 2019, shifted focus to its first product: the Connexus® BCI.
Connexus is designed to restore communication through text, synthesized speech, and computer control for people with severe motor impairments, including those caused by ALS, stroke, or spinal cord injury. Backed by two FDA Breakthrough Device Designations and a successful first-in-human recording in May 2025, Paradromics is currently recruiting for the Connect-One Clinical Study to evaluate the long-term safety and participant benefits of their first product, the Connexus BCI.
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