Principal Embedded Software Engineer
Lexington Medical, Inc. · Bedford, MA
$180,000–$220,000
Jul 21, 2026
Bedford, MA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on principal-level role building real-time, safety-critical embedded software for a surgical stapling platform. Day-to-day work spans writing production C/C++ code, integrating low-level drivers and communication interfaces, bench-level hardware debugging alongside electrical and mechanical engineers, and owning the embedded codebase end to end. The role also carries architectural leadership and mentorship responsibilities, with compliance to IEC 62304 and FDA Class II/III requirements expected throughout.
Principal level · 12+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $180,000–$220,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2–15
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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What the occupation pays Median $169,742 (middle half $134,780–$187,781). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The JD explicitly lists a Bachelor's or Master's degree as the minimum; since a Bachelor's is the lower bound and no equivalent-experience substitution is offered, the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
ARM Cortex-M is listed as the primary target architecture ('or equivalent'), making it a hard gate on microcontroller-class embedded experience; 'equivalent' alternatives are too vague to enumerate meaningfully.
Oscilloscopes and logic analyzers are mentioned as required hardware-level debugging tools but are physical lab instruments rather than named software technologies, so they are not emitted as skills.
Python and C# are explicitly called 'a plus' in the qualifications, so they are captured together as a single preferred skill with C# as an alternative.
IEC 62304 and FDA Class II/III compliance are stated as requirements the engineer must apply in their own day-to-day work; FDA Class II/III is a regulatory context rather than a named technology and is therefore not emitted as a separate skill — it is covered by the IEC 62304 entry.
The role carries genuine org-wide technical authority (setting long-term embedded platform direction, mentoring senior/staff engineers, owning architecture and standards across the platform) consistent with a Principal-level classification, despite the 12+ years requirement being common at Senior level as well.
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