About the Job:
The role will be responsible for translating clinical and user needs into design requirements and addressing those with practical software designs implementing designs into testable prototypes efficiently capturing design learnings for quick iteration loops and bringing these features to product launch (Staff expected to have a broader scope of feature ownership).
Responsibilities:
- Develop real time and/or nonreal time software creating features and infrastructure that supports safe and effective procedures
- Align individual work to best support company goals. Identifying high risk items and being part of developing solutions
- Be part of building a high performance team help build and maintain strong process and culture in particular with the code review and release process. Increased expectation of mentorship for Staff.
- Contribute to determining software development timelines and execute to those timelines
- Document and communicate your work through design reviews and as appropriate released documents as part of the product development process
- Identify gaps and pitch in as needed to ensure that the team meets their goals and objectives
Skills:
- C and Python programming skills following software development best practices (unit testing code review etc.) and delivering production quality code
- Strong debug skills and experience efficiently implementing new features with systems that interact closely with hardware and process realtime data
- Software architecture for medical safety (or a similar safety critical system) and associated formal documentation
- Strong background in objectoriented design and programming with the ability to create new designs or improve existing ones to ensure clear separation of concerns
- Experience with low latency image and GUI integration a plus
- Understanding of how early design decisions cascade into outcomes later. Ability to make smart decisions regarding clinical workflow regulations and risk management to save time and effort later.
Requirements:
- BS in softwarerelated field or equivalent work experience
- For Senior: expecting 5 years of relevant industry plus academia experience (medical device or similar safety critical system experience preferred)
- For Staff: expecting 9 years of relevant industry plus academia experience (medical device or similar safety critical system experience preferred)
- Comfortable working with high levels of ambiguity and an ability to convert that into tangible outcomes
- Experience with designing testing and shipping software for medical device capital equipment or similar safety critical systems
- Experience with medical device development process design control risk management design verification and regulatory processes or experience with similar safety critical system development processes
- Ability to work in a hybrid work environment working onsite in Santa Cruz on average 3 or more days a week