Contract Staff Software Engineer

Position Title:

Contract Staff Software Engineer Work Location:

Twin Cities, MN Assignment Duration:

12 months (possibility of extension)

Work Arrangement:

Onsite Position Summary:

This position works out of our Tech Center in the Twin Cities, MN. In our organization's Electrophysiology (EP) business, we're advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Background & Context:

As the Contract Staff Software Engineer, you'll have the chance to be a critical contributor to building compelling products within our organization's Electrophysiology Division. The individual will participate in the development and deployment of system and software architecture to support our development programs. Design, develop, and document software applications embedded in diagnostic and interventional cardiology devices. Participate in all phases of the software lifecycle, including concept development, requirements, design, implementation, and testing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply solid software design skills to develop medical devices to meet specific performance requirements and deliver on goals according to product development quality system.

These activities include developing requirements specifications, design, implementation and testing of software and embedded software algorithms or/and general Linux applications and GUIs. These algorithms include real-time 3D location tracking, real-time 3D anatomical model creation and intracardiac signal visualization.

• As a team member, contribute significantly to completion of various project activities, from definition, identifying software functional requirements, implementation, code reviews, and final release according to medical device development processes.
• Create and implement software/test plans/protocols and generate test reports to ensure software/firmware design meets the specifications and quality system requirements.
• Work closely with cross-function team, including design reviews with QA, RA, test engineers, hardware engineers to ensure the firmware design meets the product requirements, including safety, reliability and serviceability. Be creative and innovative in the product development process.
• Make, recommend or justify critical technical decisions in product design. The decision should be based on broad investigation and testing.
• Document and transfer developed solutions to manufacturing team for mass production and provide technical support and sustaining development in launch phase.

Qualification & Experience:

• B.S. in Computer Science or M.S+ (Preferred) in Computer Science.
• 6+ years of software development or equivalent (e.g., 4+ years of Ph.D. research experience in Computer Science).
• 5+ years of Object-Oriented Design, C++ and Qt Programming Experiences on Linux platform.
• Strong experience in design and implementation of cutting-edge graphics techniques and detailed knowledge of graphics hardware such as OpenGL shader language, CUDA, Nvidia GPU programming, Open

GL 2D/3D

texture mapping, CPU/GPU performance profiling and characterization, and other general stream programming techniques.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in computational geometry algorithms.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in developing multithreaded real-time applications.
• Excellent analytical and mathematical skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Software development through full product lifecycle.
• Experience with creating and managing requirements and translating them into effective architectures and software design.
• An understanding of requirements for, and experience in medical device development.
• Excellent documentation skills (highly regulated development environment). Additional Information (If Applicable): Preferred Qualifications
• GUI development experience: Qt/QML.