Staff Backend Engineer, Medical Device & Cloud Platform

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. In this role, you will be a technical pillar for the backends of medical devices, developing and enhancing backend systems and cloud platforms to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care.

Responsibilities:

• Own the successful execution and deployment of the device backend, acting as the primary driver of code quality
• Optimize and scale core processing algorithms and denoising software on-device and in the cloud
• Design, build out and scale our AWS-hosted, HIPAA-compliant data platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform
• Maintain and enhance robust backend services that facilitate seamless communication and data transfer between field devices, the cloud, clinicians, and hospital systems
• Help establish and build the mechanisms to enforce best practices for handling sensitive patient data to maintain security and HIPAA compliance across the entire stack
• Develop clearly-written, tested, and documented software solutions compliant with standards for the medical device software lifecycle (e.g., IEC 62304)
• Partner with regulatory, product, hardware, and data science stakeholders to translate complex device and signal-processing models into production-ready backend services
• Actively support documentation efforts and internal knowledge transfer to ensure the long-term health of our software ecosystem

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience (medical device experience is a strong plus), with a focus on mission-critical, high-performance production backend systems
• Demonstrated experience debugging complex systems
• Expert-level proficiency in Python
• Deep experience building and managing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS) using Terraform
• Demonstrated experience writing software for real-world physical devices, kiosks, or IoT edge environments, with an understanding of resource constraints and hardware-software interaction
• Professional experience with Linux-based systems and the command line, specifically in environments where software interacts with real-world hardware
• Direct experience developing medical device software following IEC 62304, preferably for complex Class II medical capital equipment (e.g., medical imaging devices, surgical robotics, or complex diagnostic consoles)
• Familiarity with React, TypeScript, and Storybook to facilitate seamless collaboration with frontend engineers
• Experience implementing identity solutions, specifically OAuth (IAM and Auth0), for both cloud platforms and edge devices
• Proficiency in bash scripting for infrastructure and deployment automation
• Experience writing and debugging C/C++ code for embedded systems firmware