Senior Software Project Manager – Embedded Medical Devices

***Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a Senior Software Project Manager – Embedded Medical Devices on a contract basis to lead and coordinate the development of cutting-edge surgical robotic platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing software development lifecycles, ensuring timely delivery, compliance with medical device standards, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams, including but not limited to: product management, software & controls engineers, hardware engineers, clinical design engineers, human factors, regulatory, and quality engineering teams. This role is hybrid in Sunnyvale, CA.

Responsibilities:

Manage Full Software Development Lifecycle:

• Plan, track, and oversee software project activities from requirements gathering to design, development, testing, validation, documentation, and release.

Cross-Functional Team Leadership:

• Facilitate communication and collaboration among inter- and intra-project teams (with several cross-functional stakeholders) to ensure project success.

Project Planning & Tracking:

• Develop detailed project schedules, set milestones, allocate resources, monitor progress, and proactively mitigate risks. Provide clear communication to the organization on accurate project status, critical path, and potential areas of risk

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serve as the main point of contact for project stakeholders, reporting on project status, challenges, and solutions.

Regulatory Compliance:

• Support the team to ensure deliverables adhere to regulatory standards (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485, FDA 21 CFR Part 820), documentation, and quality system requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

• Explore process improvements and arrive at recommendations for future adoption relevant to best practices in agile, waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies tailored to medical device software.

Budget & Resource Management:

• Track project budgets, forecasts, and resources to keep projects on target.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of project management experience in software development, with at least 2-3 years in medical device or robotics.
• Proven track record leading software projects for medical devices, preferably surgical robotics.
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
• Familiarity with surgical robotic platforms, control software, integration with hardware systems, and surgical workflow.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements for medical software (IEC 62304, ISO 14971, FDA regulations).
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience with project management tools (JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, etc.).

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.