Senior Principal iOS Architect (Medical Devices)

Location: San Diego, California, United States; hybrid, with 1–2 days per week in the office.

Annual base salary: $226,400.00–$339,650.00 for U.S.-based positions; incentive compensation may also apply.

Company

hirify.global is a medical device company developing the Omnipod insulin delivery platform and connected systems for diabetes and other therapeutic applications.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the iOS architecture for pump control, CGM and pump data capture, local persistence, cloud upload, connection loss, background execution, and app lifecycle events.
• Own BLE connection, pairing, bonding, reconnection, command reliability, notification handling, and coexistence with pump firmware constraints.
• Set the iOS technical vision through roadmaps, architecture decision records, interface contracts, and implementation standards.
• Design regulated medical device software with traceable requirements, risk controls, verification and validation, and FDA design controls.
• Establish security, privacy, and data integrity architecture for therapy commands, protected health information, glucose data, insulin delivery data, and device-state data.
• Review designs and critical code paths, mentor senior engineers, and partner with firmware, cloud, quality, human factors, cybersecurity, regulatory, and clinical teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial recent experience architecting and shipping production iOS mobile applications.
• Deep experience with Swift and Apple platform APIs, including application lifecycle, background execution, networking, and local storage.
• Demonstrated iOS Bluetooth Low Energy experience using Core Bluetooth, including connection management, pairing, and reliable command and notification handling.
• Experience defining architecture for a connected system where a mobile app controls or serves as a gateway for a physical device and cloud backend.
• Working knowledge of HIPAA and protected health information collection, storage, and transmission in a mobile medical application.
• Experience working in a regulated quality system, including requirements traceability and verification, such as medical device, aerospace, or another design-control environment.
• Ability to write and defend architecture decisions balancing safety, security, reliability, and delivery speed.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and quality, regulatory, and clinical partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with insulin delivery, CGM, or other Class II or Class III connected medical devices.
• Working knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, IEC 62366, FDA design controls, and FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance.
• Mobile medical software security architecture, including secure storage, certificate pinning, authenticated cloud APIs, and BLE security modes.
• Android mobile application experience to align iOS and Android controllers.
• Flutter or Kotlin Multiplatform experience limited to shared non-UI logic, with the therapy interface remaining native iOS.
• Experience with offline-first synchronization, conflict handling, cloud auditability, SwiftUI, UIKit, production-scale modularization, and dependency boundaries for safety-critical paths.
• Experience contributing technical content to regulatory submissions or design history files.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering.
• Experience mentoring senior and principal-level engineers and setting engineering standards across teams as an individual contributor.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with regular office attendance in San Diego.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off and employee wellness programs.
• Work on connected medical devices designed to support insulin delivery and diabetes management.

Hiring process

• The posting remains open until the position is filled.
• Applications are submitted online through the hirify.global Careers site.