Sr. Robotics Software Engineer

Senior Robotics Software Engineer

If you are looking for an amazing opportunity where you can combine your software engineering skills with your passion to apply Robotics to medicine and healthcare, then this is the position for you. This is kind of the position you will have tremendous pride talking about with your friends and family. You will be part of a very talented team that is highly motivated and passionate about our vision which simply is "Life Unlimited".

Your primary responsibility is to participate in the entire software development life-cycle which includes reviewing requirements, doing design, implementing the design, unit testing and integration testing. This position is expected to function in a leadership role on a design team and will provide mentoring to less experienced engineers. You will also be expected to lead planning sessions for simple projects. You will also investigate design approaches and evaluate technical feasibility. To enable UX/UI design, you may also be required to create wireframes to enable things such as A/B testing. You will be required to visit clinical environments to ensure you have a sound understanding of the clinical context.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop and maintain large scale and distributed systems software.
• Leads design teams and mentors junior engineers.
• Leads integration efforts on simple projects.
• Investigates design approaches, prototypes concepts and evaluates technical feasibility.
• Continuously monitors industry for best practices and drives a culture of engineering excellence.
• Works in an Agile/Scrum environment and delivers highest quality software against aggressive schedules.
• Embraces engineering processes not just for compliance but because they drive improvements in quality, better customer experience and better product/market fit.
• Knows the value of robust design, unit testing, code review and integration testing and ensures these engineering practices are always followed.
• Creates requirement documentation and when possible automates the process of creating documents using tools such as Doxygen.

LOCATION:

Pittsburgh, PA

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or related fields preferred, or commensurate experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Very strong knowledge of C++ and other object oriented languages.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems including internals of Linux.
• Has worked in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead design and integration teams.
• Strong background in computer vision.
• Strong knowledge of software tools such as GIT, JIRA and build tools such as Make and CMake.
• Proven expertise in leveraging design patterns.
• Strong ability to describe design using UML.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience with FDA regulated medical devices.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Google Test
• Experience in software development for Medical Robotics, Surgical Navigation and Augmented Reality.
• Demonstrated programming experience in visualization 3D data using OpenGL or similar graphics library
• Good understanding of 3D geometric concepts such as rotation matrices and coordinate transforms
• Experience with Windows operating systems including internal of Windows internals.
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.

COMPETENCIES

• Works very well in a collaborative, fast paced, multidisciplinary environment, and thrives under pressure.
• Has a healthy risk taking appetite and shows the courage to fail early and cheap.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong planning skills.
• Is able to visit clinical sites to understand the clinical context in which our products are used.
• Has the ability to simplify complex situations so that junior team members and other stakeholders do not get overwhelmed.
• Has a positive can-do attitude and inculcates the same with other team members.
• Is able to work very well with geographically distributed teams and can work with teams from a very diverse background.

About Us:

Smith+Nephew has a proud history of more than 160 years of improving health around the world. Whilst we have grown significantly from our beginnings as a small family pharmacy in Hull, England, our caring spirit has remained the same.

Care, Collaboration, & Courage:

Care means that we show empathy and understanding for each other, our customers and patients.

Collaboration means we work together as a team, based on mutual trust and respect.

Courage is about continuous learning, innovation and accountability.

At Smith+Nephew, we offer competitive and rewarding compensation and benefits packages!

Our benefits packages vary from country to country and by level, but often the total package includes the following:

• A competitive salary with an annual bonus plan.
• Strong Healthcare coverage.
• A competitive company retirement benefit scheme for all employees.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Smith+Nephew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.