Firmware Engineer, Bluesight
KitCheck
$100-120k
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Medical intelligence automation vendor
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Medical intelligence automation vendor
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-120k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify the top complexities of hospital pharmacies.
Role
Who you are
- Comfortable working in unfamiliar programming languages and ramping into new stacks quickly — you'll be supporting firmware across several from day one
- Able to make progress toward a goal even when the path forward is abstract or not fully defined
- Genuinely interested in close, ongoing collaboration with product and domain experts — this is a highly collaborative role, not a solo one
- Strong communication habits: proactive updates, regular check-ins, and comfortable flagging blockers early rather than going quiet
- Early-career engineers with strong fundamentals who are excited by broad language and hardware exposure will thrive here
Desirable
- Experience building or supporting on-premise / on-device software
- Exposure to IoT device build/dev as a hobbyist or tinkerer
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, common protocols)
- General Linux systems knowledge
- Familiarity with how web applications communicate (REST APIs, client-server request/response patterns)
- Familiarity with our day-to-day toolset: macOS working environment, Linux development, Git/GitHub, Jira, Slack, and Docker containers
What the job involves
- KitCheck's hardware fleet spans multiple RFID reader models, each with device-specific firmware written in different languages and frameworks. We're looking for an engineer to take ownership of maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and supporting that firmware in the field
- You'll be a full member of our ~10-person KitCheck engineering team, working especially closely with our three-person hardware and RFID software team — a tight-knit group where firmware sits at the center
- This role is roughly 75% software, 25% hardware
- You'll spend the most hands-on time in Python and Go — the two languages our stack leans on most heavily — though prior experience in either isn't required
- Own firmware across our full fleet of RFID reader models — maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting — with each device line running its own language and framework
- Produce and maintain the support documentation and materials our Support team needs to handle day-to-day, live-device support in the field
- Take ownership of the codebase: create, review, and contribute to pull requests across a wide variety of languages and frameworks
- Contribute to and grow expertise in our RFID device-control platform, including performance-sensitive scanning code
- Our codebase spans several languages depending on the device line, including Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, TypeScript, and Ruby
Our take
Bluesight (formerly Kit Check) is a software provider offering automated hospital pharmacy kit processing solutions to healthcare institutions. Bluesight's solution is improving medication safety by optimising its management process, which in turn reduces risks, improves efficiency, and brings cost savings to hospitals and pharmacies.
To date, Bluesight's Medication Intelligence™ solutions have been adopted by over 1,000 hospitals in the US and Canada and are directly responsible for reducing replenishment processing times by over 90% while improving pharmacy kit accuracy and safety.
Leading the way for automated hospital pharmacy kit processing, Bluesight is dedicated to driving innovative medication safety solutions for healthcare institutions and patients alike. As demand for its solutions continues to grow and on the back of impressive funding rounds, the company looks to keep up and remain at the forefront of automated pharmacy processing technology.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2016
$15m
SERIES C
Jan 2015
$12m
SERIES B
Total funding: $37.5m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation
- Fully Remote
- Comprehensive Insurance
- Home Office Stipend
- Monthly Health & Wellness Stipend
- Short & Long Term Disability Coverage
- 401K Program (via Vanguard) with up to 4% company match
- Paid Parental Leave
- Investing Into Your Career Growth
- Local Meetup, Team & Company Retreats
Company HQ
Eisenhower East, Alexandria, VA
Leadership
Kevin MacDonald
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Vice President of ODIN Technologies, as well as the Lead RFID Architect at Sun Microsystems.
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