Staff Software Developer

Role Overview:

Smith & Nephew's Arthroscopic Enabling Technologies division is working on the development of the next generation of ultra-high-definition video endoscopes that enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery.

As we grow, we are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, who will be a major contributor to the research and development of medical device software, encompassing digital image acquisition and processing, computer mobile devices, and hospital information systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and prototype software applications for digital video endoscopy. These systems are used in the operating room by orthopedic surgeons and their clinical team
• Design sophisticated surgical systems that interconnect with other capital devices in the operating room (OR), mobile applications for image manipulation in the OR, wireless medical printers, and cloud-based patient medical record information systems.
• Collaborate with Electrical, Software, and AI/ML engineers to optimally implement software algorithms embedded in medical devices.
• Perform design control functions to ensure compliance with FDA, ISO, and other industry standards.
• Take responsibility for Design History Files, writing product specifications, draft design documents, and develop test protocols as needed. Conduct technical peer reviews of software designs by other team members.
• Full product life cycle experience, preferably having contributed to products released to market.
• Analysis and design of software systems, Software requirements elicitation process, High-level software architecture design
• Object-oriented design, design patterns, data structures, and numerical algorithms
• System design and modeling using UML or SysML
• Application design and development on Linux OS and/or real-time operating systems (RTOS)
• Software development in C, C++, Python
• Design, implementation, and debugging of multi-threaded applications
• Experience with digital image processing, computer vision, or video streaming is a plus.
• Working knowledge of modern software development practices and technologies such as agile
• methodologies and DevOps is a plus.
• Experience in parallel programming with GPUs is a plus.

Location:

• Andover, MA

Education:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science
• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or Computer Science preferred

Experience:

• A minimum of 7+ years of experience with a BS degree in a highly regulated industry (medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or defense ) developing software
• 2+ experience in mobile applications required
• 2+ experience in image processing preferred
• 2+ experience in cloud computing preferred

Competencies:

• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams

Travel:

• Up to 5% travel US domestic

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