Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer — 3D Print Farm Operations Permanent / Full-time $200,000 – $250,000 About the Client A venture-backed US healthtech company that designs and manufactures custom medical devices at scale, combining AI with in-house automated 3D-printing production. They're already live with some of the largest national healthcare providers and trusted by major US employers to protect their on-the-feet workforces. Role Overview This is the engineering role that owns the software running the physical production floor - the layer where backend services meet the printers themselves. You'll sit between a distributed engineering team and the production operation in San Francisco, owning the systems that keep the print farm running at scale. It's a hands‑on, on‑site role: you're with the hardware every day, shipping improvements that directly change how many devices get produced, how reliably, and how fast the team can react when something goes wrong. Responsibilities Own and develop the systems that handle printer queue orchestration, job dispatch and fleet-wide monitoring across the print farm Build automation that cuts manual operational work and lifts throughput and reliability Instrument the hardware to push real‑time data — failures, throughput, utilisation — into dashboards and alerting pipelines Work with the distributed engineering team to turn floor requirements into well-architected backend services and APIs Act as the on-site technical lead for production‑floor initiatives, from scoping through to delivery Find and remove failure points across the full path from print job creation to finished product Required Skills and Experience Hands‑on experience writing software that talks to physical hardware, with a real understanding of what that involves in practice Comfortable with hardware communication protocols - USB, serial, REST/ APIs or vendor SDKs and debugging at the hardware/software boundary Strong TypeScript and Node.js, with experience building and maintaining production backend services Working knowledge of AWS - enough to design systems that bridge on-prem hardware with cloud services Comfortable on a production floor: someone who can translate messy operational problems into clean software and communicate fluently in both directions Nice to Have Experience building monitoring, alerting or automation tooling in a manufacturing or operational environment Please note we are unable to offer employer sponsorship for this role. #J-18808-Ljbffr