Embedded Engineer (C++)

About Vitestro

Founded in 2017 in Utrecht, Vitestro is pioneering the future of blood collection with the Aletta® Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device™ (ARPD™). This groundbreaking medical device combines advanced multi-modal imaging (near-infrared, ultrasound, and Doppler ultrasound) with robotics and AI to perform the entire diagnostic blood draw procedure autonomously.

By addressing critical healthcare staffing shortages and improving patient experience, Vitestro is transforming one of the most common and essential medical procedures. With more than 90 team members and growing rapidly, we are scaling our impact. As we placed our first devices with customers, we are now expanding our team to ensure successful implementation and long-term reliability.

At Vitestro, we are committed to continuous innovation and improvement.

As our Embedded Engineer, you work at the intersection of software and hardware, helping us develop and maintain the real-time embedded Linux platform at the heart of the Vitestro device. You work deep in the system, where the performance of C/C++ applications, the operating system, networking, and hardware all come together. You develop and improve operating-system functionality, investigate complex performance and reliability issues, and build the automated testing needed to understand how changes affect the device. A particular focus is real-time performance, where timing at the microsecond level can directly influence device behavior. As our software and product continue to evolve, you help us stay in control of that complexity by making performance measurable, regressions visible, and issues easier to diagnose—both during development and when supporting devices in the field.

First months at Vitestro

In your first months, you get to know our hardware, embedded Linux platform, and the C/C++ applications running on it. You build a strong understanding of how the applications interact with the real-time platform and how operating-system behavior influences the performance of the wider device. Working closely with the team, you start delivering changes to the OS and its networked subsystems and take ownership of items from our embedded software backlog. At the same time, you begin developing a nightly testing pipeline that integrates software changes, runs systematic performance tests on the device, and makes regressions visible before they reach a release. As your understanding of the system grows, you contribute to debugging and root-cause analysis of complex issues and help us improve the tools available for diagnosing problems both in development and in the field.

This is what success looks like

After 12 months, you have become a go-to engineer for our real-time embedded Linux platform. You have a deep understanding of how our C/C++ applications, operating system, and hardware interact, and can independently diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues. Device performance is continuously measured, with regressions caught through automated CI/CD and nightly testing before release. Your work helps the team maintain a reliable, performant platform and identify issues faster, both during development and in the field.