Tandem Diabetes Care · 2 weeks ago
Principal Software Engineer (Firmware Developer Experience)
California - High Bluff
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $230K/yr
10+ years expTandem Diabetes Care is dedicated to creating innovative solutions for people living with diabetes. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the design and architecture of the firmware build infrastructure and CI/CD automation, ensuring efficient delivery of firmware for advanced insulin pump products.
Medical Device
Responsibilities
Architects, implements, and maintains the embedded firmware build infrastructure, including build orchestration, tool chains, configuration systems, and artifact generation
Designs and builds CI/CD workflows that integrate automated build, test, and release processes
Drives adoption of industry-standard technology and best practices in build automation, configuration management, and developer tooling
Ensures the reliability and availability of CI and server infrastructure and leads the rapid diagnosis and resolution of outages that impact engineering teams
Collaborates across the organization and with external vendors to procure, deploy, and maintain development tools and licenses
Drives a culture of continuous improvement in developer experience, engineering efficiency, and quality
Plays an active leadership role in the development, modification, and testing of software units per corporate software process documents
Establishes and enforces strong software engineering practices, concepts, and techniques across multiple software teams
Proactively identifies opportunities in software process, discusses with peers, and implements proposals to address gaps
Provides technical guidance to major programs and software engineering teams
Responsible for the training, mentoring, and development of junior team members
Guides the team through strategic design and architecture decisions
Creates, maintains, and reviews software design specifications, interface descriptions, and other software documentation
Creates, maintains, and reviews software requirements specifications
Influences software test strategy and supports validation and verification activities
Evaluates and recommends tools, technologies, and processes
Qualification
Required
Skilled in utilizing modern AI tools in software development
Deep knowledge and experience with formal software
Skilled at fostering an environment that supports an effective exchange of information between diverse groups
Ability to scope, estimate time needed and track large scale development projects
Skilled at defining and translating high-level requirements into software design and implementation
Able to lead cooperative work efforts within and between teams
Adept at leading change initiatives and ensuring the redeployment of resources within and between groups to meet new objectives
Able to assert own ideas and persuade others through effectively consolidating, evaluating, and presenting relevant information
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education and years of applicable work experience
10+ years' experience in the field of embedded software for medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or other safety/regulation critical products
Extensive experience with embedded build systems and toolchains (e.g., GCC, CMake, Kconfig, Nix) for multi-target embedded platforms
Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and build/test/release automation (e.g. GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure)
Strong proficiency in Python and scripting languages for automation and developer tooling
Experienced with regulated software life cycle development, preferably medical device software
Benefits
Competitive compensation package that includes bonus
Robust benefits package
Company
Tandem Diabetes Care
Tandem Diabetes Care, a global insulin delivery and diabetes technology company, manufactures and sells advanced automated insulin delivery systems that reduce the burden of diabetes management, while creating new possibilities for patients, their loved ones, and healthcare providers.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
David Berger
EVP and Chief Operating Officer
Brian Hansen
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
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