Software Engineer

Job Description SummaryWe are looking for an experienced Software Engineer (Qt/QML) to join the Maternal & Fetal Care (MFC) Systems & Software Engineering team. In this role, you will be a core member of the product software team responsible for designing, developing, integrating, testing, and maintaining high-quality software for MFC products. You will contribute to software architecture, feature development, defect resolution, performance improvement, and sustaining activities in a regulated medical device environment. The ideal candidate is a strong team player with excellent communication skills, hands-on technical depth, and the ability to deliver results in a fast-paced Agile environment.
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Job Description
­­Roles and Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
Design, develop, integrate, and maintain software features, platform components, subsystems, and services for Infant Care products.
Develop high-quality C++, Qt, and QML software on embedded Linux platforms, ensuring reliability, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
Apply SDLC practices and methodologies such as Agile, Lean, CI/CD, software and product security, documentation, refactoring, and testing techniques.
Write clean, efficient, testable code that meets coding standards and delivers the expected functionality within committed timelines.
Work with product, technical, program, and system leadership to understand product requirements, user needs, product vision, and multi-generation technology plans.
Translate requirements and product vision into well-defined user stories, software tasks, design inputs, and implementation plans.
Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, interface definition, impact analysis, and technical decision-making.
Analyze defects, perform root cause investigation, debug complex software issues, and implement corrective actions.
Collaborate with verification, systems, hardware, program, and product teams to ensure complete and high-quality feature delivery.
Support unit testing, integration testing, automation, static analysis, and other engineering practices that improve software quality and predictability.
Understand the complete product, its modules, interfaces, and dependencies while developing expertise in the assigned component or subsystem.
Identify opportunities to improve development efficiency, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and strengthen software development processes.
Ensure compliance with applicable quality, regulatory, security, documentation, and process expectations for medical device software.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in STEM discipline such as Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related field.
Minimum of 3 years of professional software development experience in a production software environment.
Strong hands-on experience in C++, Qt, QML, and object-oriented analysis and design on embedded Linux platforms.
Experience working in Agile software development teams with exposure to SDLC, CI/CD, version control, code reviews, and defect management practices.
Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, including experience working with existing and complex codebases.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively with cross-functional and global teams.
Desired Characteristics:
Experience in medical device software development or other regulated product development environments.
Understanding of healthcare product development, quality management systems, design controls, traceability, verification, and validation practices.
Proficiency in leveraging approved AI-assisted software development tools to enhance coding efficiency, test automation, code quality, debugging effectiveness, and overall engineering productivity while adhering to security, compliance, and quality standards.
Experience with unit testing, integration testing, test automation, static analysis, performance profiling, and software quality improvement practices.
Exposure to tools such as Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Rally, Coverity, SonarQube, or similar engineering toolchains.
Strong analytical thinking, ownership mindset, communication skills, and ability to work with global cross-functional teams across time zones.
Proven ability to ramp up quickly on complex and unfamiliar codebases and learn new languages, frameworks, tools, or product domains as needed.
Note
This Job Description is intended to provide a high level guide to the role. However, it is not intended to amend or otherwise restrict/expand the duties required from each individual employee as set out in their respective employment contract and/or as otherwise agreed between an employee and their manager.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes