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title: 'Firmware Engineer -KitCheck at Bluesight'
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# Firmware Engineer -KitCheck at Bluesight

- **Company:** Bluesight
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $100k–$120k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/bluesight/e51efb52-0290-4cb7-80fe-4c786e0e3e7b

## Job description

At Bluesight, our mission is to create groundbreaking solutions that increase efficiency, safety and visibility for health systems, hospital pharmacy, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.  We empower our customers to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, every time.  We are a high growth healthcare information technology company with a start-up 'vibe' but over 3,000 customers using our proven solutions.

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. This is a hybrid role based in Austin, TX.

You can expect to

- 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.

## What We Are Looking For

- 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.

## Nice to have

- 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

Our environment

Our codebase spans several languages depending on the device line, including Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, TypeScript, and Ruby.

## What you'll get from us

- Opportunities to solve problems of scale, debt and security to redefine what’s possible in medication intelligence
- Room to be creative and choose your own path
- Trust in your sense of ownership
- Dedicated budget for training and career development
- Coworkers who you'll learn from, who will push you and who are looking to learn from you

This position is open to applicants in the continental United States.

Why Bluesight? Bluesight’s culture is built on innovation and teamwork. There’s room to grow and opportunities to take initiative. You will partner with sharp, motivated teammates looking to disrupt a massive industry—and have fun doing it.  We truly believe that where you work and what you do matters.  Join us as we revolutionize the hospital pharmacy landscape! -Competitive salary -Time off when you need it – unlimited vacation days! -Generous insurance coverage -401k program with a company match -Fun, collaborative culture!

EOE AA M/F/VET/Disability

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.

## About Bluesight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bluesight provides AI-powered software solutions that simplify hospital and pharmacy operations, including inventory management, compliance, procurement, and drug diversion monitoring.
- **Entity Type**: Private (total funding $49.9M across 5 rounds; stage not specified)
- **Headquarters**: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Kevin MacDonald (Co-Founder & CEO) and Vijay Venkatesh

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Healthcare technology (hospital pharmacy operations)
- Target customers: Hospitals and health systems (B2B, enterprise); over 3,000 U.S. and Canadian hospitals currently use Bluesight
- Mission: Simplify the complexities of healthcare operations with best-in-class technology, ensuring every patient is protected and every dollar is optimized.

## Products & Services
- **KitCheck**: RFID-based inventory management for medication kits and trays, reducing waste and ensuring availability.
- **PrivacyPro**: Diversion surveillance and patient privacy monitoring, using AI to detect potential drug diversion and privacy breaches.
- **CostCheck**: Purchasing optimization platform that identifies drug spend savings and prevents overcharges.
- **340B Compliance**: Solution to maximize 340B savings while staying audit-ready.
- **Drug Shortage Management**: Tools to plan for and mitigate drug shortages before they disrupt care.
- **Patient Privacy Monitoring**: Automated monitoring of patient data access to detect privacy violations.
- **Prism (AI Platform)**: Agentic AI assistant that connects fragmented data (wholesalers, EHRs, dispensing cabinets, HR systems) to provide plain-language answers, proactive alerts, and automated workflows. Early adopters report up to 97% reduction in analysis and reporting time.

All products are SaaS, purpose-built for healthcare workflows.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at $30M (LinkedIn data); Total funding $49.9M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed in available sources
- **Growth Signals**: Doubled headcount in the past two years; currently 184 employees (+9% YoY); partnered with over 3,000 hospitals; recognized as Best-in-KLAS for Diversion and Privacy Monitoring, MedTech Breakthrough Award winner, and market leader in Kit & Tray Management. Example ROI: Sentara Health saved $3.45M in drug spend using CostCheck over two years.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Healthcare-native technology**: All solutions are built specifically for hospital pharmacy and compliance workflows, not adapted from generic tools.
- **Integrated data platform**: Prism connects data from wholesalers, EHRs, dispensing cabinets, and HR systems into a single view, enabling AI-driven insights and automated actions.
- **Comprehensive suite**: Covers inventory, procurement, diversion, privacy, 340B, and drug shortages under one vendor, simplifying vendor management and reducing costs.
- **Proven ROI**: Demonstrated savings and efficiency gains (e.g., 97% reduction in analysis time, millions in drug spend savings).
- **Agentic AI**: Proactively monitors operations and surfaces issues before teams need to ask.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first innovation**: Continued investment in the Prism platform to embed agentic AI across all product lines.
- **Product expansion**: Creating new product categories (e.g., drug shortage management, 340B compliance) to address emerging hospital needs.
- **Growth through customer partnerships**: Working closely with hospitals to co-develop solutions and drive adoption.
- **Scaling operations**: Expanding headcount and customer base while maintaining a startup-like agility.

## Why Work Here
- **Fully remote culture**: Most roles are remote within the United States; some hybrid positions in Austin, TX. In-person meeting attendance required occasionally.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Unlimited vacation, full health insurance (medical, dental, vision), home office stipend, monthly health & wellness stipend, short- and long-term disability, 401K with up to 4% company match via Vanguard, paid parental leave.
- **Growth and learning**: Emphasis on career development, continuous learning, and investing in employees’ growth. The company has doubled in size recently, offering ample advancement opportunities.
- **Culture**: Described as inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven. Employees are treated as valued partners, not just contributors.
- **Impact**: Work directly impacts patient safety and hospital efficiency across thousands of healthcare facilities.

## Sources
1. [Bluesight Homepage](https://bluesight.com/)
2. [Bluesight Careers Page](https://bluesight.com/careers/)
3. [Bluesight About Page](https://bluesight.com/about/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluesight-inc)
5. [Bluesight Job Listings (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/bluesight/)

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