Principal Software Engineer - C++ (Plymouth, MN)

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a pivotal technical leader within the high-performing Image Guided Therapy Devices (IGT-D) Software R&D group based in Plymouth, MN. In this leadership role, you will guide the development of innovative features for our Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) Clinical Imaging Application, significantly enhancing the clinical workflow for our physician customers and improving patients' lives. You will be responsible for leading all aspects of software development, including design, implementation, user requirement satisfaction, testing, and documentation, ensuring the team achieves excellence in every phase.

Your role: * *

• Work closely with Product Owner, Software Architects and Software Testers to translate software requirements to medical imaging application features, ensure the software fits within the larger software system & platform architecture, and that proper documentation of software architecture and design satisfies regulatory requirements.

• Leverage strong C++ technical background to implement new medical imaging features added to the application are high quality and meets real time performance requirements.

• Responsible for creating work breakdown of requirements to user stories and planning activities with the development team to create accurate estimates based on data and delivering new clinical features on schedule to create a predictable timeline of future execution of features on the roadmap.

• Responsible for establishing and encouraging good architecture & design principles and coding guidelines within the software development team. Establish software development best practices including using design patterns, performing code reviews, configuring code scanning tools and mentor junior software engineers.

• Participate in risk management activities like Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to determine hazards, hazardous situations and identify risk control measures to implement. Adhere to Philips Agile QMS (Quality Management System) processes and procedures and create documentation to satisfy regulatory requirements. 

   

You're the right fit if: *  *

• You have 12+ years of software development, embedded software experience using C++, experience working with desktop applications and UI frameworks like Qt, and experience with development tools like Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Git etc.

• Your experience includes using build and DevOps tools like CMake, Jenkins, Git actions, etc., and code scanning tools like SonarQube, Coverity etc.

• You are experienced in Image Processing, co-registration algorithms, and DICOM.

• You’ve earned a bachelor’s degree (Masters’s preferred) in computer science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Experience working in agile software development environments like Scrum, Kanban and regulatory standards like IEC 62304, 82304, ISO 13485, ISO 14971.

• Excellent presentation skills and ability to communicate technical topics to non-technical stakeholders

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.

Additional Information:

• US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. 

• Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN.

   

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