Irhythmtech
Principal System Architect - MedDevice
Remote - US · Principal
Sponsorship not specified$198k-$258kDetected 30 days ago
Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceComplianceProduct StrategySystems EngineeringHIPAAHL7/FHIRPatient CareFDA RegulatoryMedical DevicesLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- This includes our on-device firmware, cloud services, analytics platforms, data pipelines, clinician and patient‑facing applications, AI/ML enablement platforms, and operational software systems.
- The role ensures that the on-device and off device software ecosystem is secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and aligned with product strategy and long-term business goals.
- Operating at an enterprise level, this role influences senior stakeholders across engineering, product, quality, regulatory, and security while maintaining deep technical credibility.
Responsibilities
- Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and guardrails that support reliability, performance, interoperability, maintainability, and regulatory compliance.
- Lead cross-functional architecture forums and governance processes, ensuring consistent patterns, shared services, and disciplined decision-making across teams.
- Drive architectural clarity early in product development by guiding systems decomposition, API strategies, data models, and cloud architectures.
- Review key technical proposals, high-impact design decisions, and fundamental platform changes across R&D teams.
- Partner with product management to translate business needs into scalable technical strategies and architectural roadmaps.
- Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what's possible.
Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering or architecture, with deep expertise in large scale distributed systems, cloud architectures, and modern application platforms.
- Ability to operate as a senior level individual contributor influencing executive teams without direct authority.
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts in clear, concise, and business relevant terms.
- Required
- Proven experience architecting regulated or high reliability systems (preferably within medical, health tech, or similar domains).
- Mastery of architectural domains such as microservices, event driven systems, data pipelines, observability, DevOps/SRE practices, and cloud native technologies.
- Demonstrated success partnering with cross functional leaders across product, security, quality, regulatory, data science, and infrastructure.
- Preferred
- Experience with FDA, EU MDR, IEC 62304, HIPAA, and related regulatory frameworks for software as part of medical systems.
- Background supporting AI/ML platform architecture, model deployment, and clinical decision support software.
- Experience designing architectures that integrate with medical devices, clinical systems, EHRs, or healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7).
- Prior leadership in organizations scaling complex multi product software ecosystems.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field
- advanced degree preferred.
Skills
- Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations for adoption, modernization, and platform evolution.
Compensation
- Estimated Pay Range
Benefits
- Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career
- Collaborate with security, privacy, regulatory, quality, and clinical teams to ensure designs meet medical device standards and software compliance requirements.
Company info
- As a part of our core values, we ensure an inclusive workforce.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
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