Manager Embedded Software Engineering

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary:

Lead a team of software engineers in the development of medical devices using best practices in compliance with STERIS operating procedures.  Provide feedback, coaching, and performance assessments to direct reports.  Assign engineers to tasks across multiple projects and guide execution.  Coordinate with project managers in creating schedules for software releases and associated documentation.  Assess team’s performance and refine work instructions to better meet project goals in more efficient ways.  Plan and execute software-centric projects for in-house applications and sustaining activities.

Duties:

• Assigns team members in the design, implementation, debugging, and verification of applications according to corporate policies and business operating procedures on new and sustaining engineering projects.
• Works with other software team members and engineering managers to coordinate team’s activities and resolve engineering and project issues.
• Reviews output of direct reports including designs, code, test approaches, test results, and other deliverables, providing guidance and feedback. 
• Mentors team to propagate good design principles and development practice.
• Investigates new software technologies and tools which may increase team’s performance.
• Creates and maintains software work instructions which comply with regulatory guidelines and corporate polices.
• Collaborates with groups outside of direct responsibilities including other engineering groups, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, etc. for project planning, analysis of product requirements, and to outline proposed solutions.
• Sets objectives for direct reports, assessing performance throughout the year, and providing an annual performance review. 
• Recruits for open positions on team.  Contracts with outside software consultants as needed.
• Guides team in the design of safe, secure, and robust control systems and software applications.
• Coaches engineers in leading software teams and in management of projects
• Assign and manage internal and external resources to support multiple projects.

Required Education & Experience:

• Requires 8+ years of related software development experience. 
• Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Software Engineering.   (A degree in another Engineering discipline or in Science may be acceptable with proven software education and/or training and demonstrated software experience.)
• Advanced degree desirable.
• Eight or more years of experience in the design and development of object oriented software and firmware systems 
• Experience working in medical device industry or other regulated industry which require formalized software development processes and software risk management.
• Experience in managing or coaching engineers.

Impact/Scope/ Dimensions:

•    Serves in a software leadership role with responsibilities for a project with up to 10 software engineers.   Allocates tasks to assigned software engineers and directs their day-to-day project-related activities.
•    Represents the Software team on NPD projects  (i.e., projects that create a new product) and has responsibility for all software deliverables.
•    Reviews and approves design and implementation proposals from individual contributors for software features/functions.  
 

Specific skills and/or business competencies:

• Demonstrated leader and/or technical expert within a software development organization.
• Have led software projects in the risk-based development and release of embedded applications.
• Capable of solving complex engineering problems through accurate interpretation of requirements and test results.
• Strong communication and problem solving skills.
• Practical experience in C/C++ object-oriented analysis and programming, and multi-threaded/multi-tasking programming is required.    Understanding of development for a resource-constrained target environment with specific performance requirements is desired.
• Able to lead a team in the appropriate selection of operating systems, which may include real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as RTXC, ThreadX, and QNX as well as traditional operating systems such as Linux, Windows (standard or embedded is required)
• Competence in deployment and use of software integrated development environments (IDEs) and related tools including compiling/building, debugging, configuration management (version control), defect management, continuous integration, and code ana