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Staff Robotics Software Engineer

Posted on: February 24, 2021 Apply Now
Full Time Expires April 30, 2021

Staff Robotics Software Engineer

Job Overview

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”. The position is in Pittsburgh, PA which is rapidly becoming the premier location for everything Robotics. You will take great pride in seeing the impact of everything you are involved in developing, having a tremendous impact on lives of patients and clinicians.

Your primary responsibility is to lead the assigned team for entire software development lifecycle 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 complex 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. Loves all aspect of software development and relishes creating products via software that delights our customers. You will be required to visit clinical environments to ensure you have a sound understanding of the clinical context.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Lead sizable teams doing design, develop and maintain large scale and distributed systems software.
  • Leads sizable design teams and mentors junior engineers.
  • Leads integration efforts on complex 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

REQUIREMENTS

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or related fields preferred

Experience:

  • 8- 15 years of experience in a software engineering role at least 5 of them in a lead role of complex projects.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Preferred Experience:

  • Experience with FDA regulated medical devices.
  • Experience with testing frameworks like Google Test
  • Experience with Robotics systems.
  • Experience with Windows operating systems including internal of Windows internals.
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.
  • Familiar with CI / CD pipelines such as JIRA, GIT, Crucible, Jenkins, Bamboo, Artifactory, etc.

Travel: <10% (All travel is limited per company COVID travel policy)

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