Senior Principal Software Engineer (Architect)

Overview

Position Summary:

Under minimal supervision, leads software development activities including software requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and integration.

Responsibilities

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

•  Provides software technical leadership on a software development team. This includes participating in requirements review, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.
• Participate as an active member on a project development team: This includes requirements change control, defect management, risk analysis, and release management.
• Creates/Maintains software requirement/functional specifications.
• Creates/Maintains software architecture documentation.

Creates/Maintains software source code that adheres to design documentation.

Performs unit testing and/or code reviews as per project policy.

Performs integration testing to ensure software functions within application and with electrical and mechanical devices.

Evaluates, investigates, and implements fixes to assigned software defects.

Evaluates, investigates, and implements assigned software change proposals.

Provides level of effort for assigned software activities

Tracks personal estimates over time in order to improve accuracy.

Follows project and corporate software plans, standards, and procedures to perform software development

Management:

• Creates/Maintains software project plans.
• Creates/Maintains software configuration management plans.
• Coordinates, schedules and supervises software developers for a project

Technical:

• Brings new software technologies into the company.
• Creates/Maintains applications (utilities) for the project to improve team efficiency, such as hardware control for other engineering disciplines or automated data analyzers for software test.
• Must have the ability to handle many software components and take ownership for a large percentage of the code base.
• Must have the ability to take ownership for high complexity implementations.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

 

Budget Managed (if applicable):

• N/A

Internal Networking/Key Relationships:

• TBD based on departmental/project needs

Skills & Capabilities:

• Leadership, Management, Team, Individual, etc (for e.g.: holds people accountable, teamwork, delegation, communication, impact and influencing, etc) 
• Consult dictionary of competencies on Manager's Database Ability to administer software engineering tools: configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
• Ability to operate instrumentation.
• Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.

Qualifications

Min Knowledge & Experience required for the position:

• Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 17 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 15 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
• Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science. 
• Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, .NET, etc.) found in product development.
• Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages
• Language: English

International Mobility: Required: No

 

Travel Requirements: 

• <5 % of time

The annual base salary range for this role is currently $200,000 range to $220,000 range. Individual employee compensation will ultimately depend on factors including education, relevant experience, skillset, knowledge, and particular business needs.

 

This role is eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k plan retirement benefits with an employer match, as well as paid vacation and sick leave. Our sales roles are eligible for participation in a commission plan and our management, and select professional roles, are eligible for a performance-based bonus.

Client-provided location(s): Bedford, MA

Job ID: 92689395

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-26T15:46:00