Lexington Medical designs and manufactures US-made endoscopic stapling devices and consumable SKUs for minimally invasive surgery, supporting surgeons in 35+ countries with a 40+ SKU patented product portfolio.
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Company Overview:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Lexington Medical, Inc.</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> is a medical device company developing and manufacturing minimally invasive surgical stapling solutions in the Boston area. With the highest standards in design engineering and smart manufacturing, our team delivers disruptive technology to healthcare providers, improving surgical outcomes for patients in a thriving $6B+ surgical stapler market.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Rooted in a talent-dense culture, we are committed to innovation, foster continuous growth, and achieve great heights together. At Lexington Medical, Inc., you will have the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of patients worldwide and thrive in a fast-growing MedTech company.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Role Overview:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are hiring a Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join our R&D team at Lexington Medical, Inc. in Bedford, MA (near Boston). This is a hands-on role: you will be building the embedded software for our surgical stapling platform yourself, writing code, integrating drivers, and debugging at the hardware level, while also owning the technical architecture and setting the long-term direction for embedded systems across the platform. The embedded software operates under tight real-time, safety-critical constraints, directly driving electromechanical subsystems where milliseconds and failure modes matter, and you will be in the lab working through hardware-software integration issues alongside electrical and mechanical engineers, not just reviewing designs from a distance.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This position is ideal for a principal-level engineer who wants to stay personally hands-on building a complex electromechanical system while also shaping architecture, technical roadmaps, and engineering culture, someone who leads by building, not just by directing.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Personally design, build, and integrate real-time embedded software for Lexington's surgical stapling platform and supporting devices, primarily on ARM Cortex-M or equivalent microcontroller-based systems, hands-on ownership of code, not just architecture review.</span></li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Lead software architecture discussions and decisions, driving consensus across engineering on structure, trade-offs, and long-term direction for the embedded platform.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Own and manage the embedded software codebase, structure, standards, dependencies, and long-term health, as the engineer accountable for its integrity.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Lead code reviews across the team, setting the bar for code quality, style, and best practices, and using reviews as a hands-on mentoring tool.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Write production code on a day-to-day basis as an active, hands-on contributor to core embedded systems, not solely in an oversight capacity.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Write, integrate, and debug low-level drivers, communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, and USB, and application-layer logic that directly controls electromechanical actuation and sensing, working at the bench with hardware, not only in the codebase.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Set embedded software technical standards, establish documentation and verification processes in alignment with IEC 62304 and FDA Class II/III medical device requirements, and apply them in your own day-to-day engineering work.</li> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}"