About INOVIO

INOVIO 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 www.inovio.com.

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 requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
• 7+ 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 developing platform software, Board Support Packages (BSPs), hardware abstraction layers, and device drivers.
• Experience working with electromechanical systems, motor control, battery-operated devices, displays, touchscreens, and sensor integration
• Experience developing embedded GUI/UI applications
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills across applications, middleware, operating system, and driver layers.
• Ability to read electrical schematics, hardware design documentation, and component datasheets
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and other hardware test equipment
• Experience with embedded development tools including Keil, IAR, GCC, Visual Studio, Android Studio, and Linux toolchains
• Knowledge of embedded cybersecurity principles, including secure coding p