We are the people who give possibilities purpose

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

Overall Purpose of Job

Work with the design and manufacturing groups to develop robust, sustainable products that meet customer expectations and are cost effective to manufacture.

Principle Objective

Responsible for providing software design, implementation, and testing of embedded software used in healthcare institutions to program, monitor and report intravenous infusion therapies. 

Key duties and responsibilities

• Perform software design based on input from clinical users, characteristics of the existing software base, consultation with other engineering staff, and system functional requirements 

• Perform software implementation, following coding guidelines and taking into account system characteristics to produce optimal performance, reliability, and maintainability

• Conduct software evaluation and testing of own software, software from other engineering staff, and third-party software

• Provide a test plan for use by other engineering staff, quality assurance and support departments in validating a new implementation

• Provide technical documentation for the design, implementation and testing of the software

• Attend design review meetings as needed to adhere to the software development procedures

• Document and repair errors related to fielded software issues

• Assist the engineering staff in clarifying requests for software changes and understand reported problems

• Required education and training

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering. For example: Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Cognitive Science or Mathematics. 8 years of relevant work experience will be considered in place of the degree

Required Skills:

• Strong C++, C skills and software design for multi-threading and multi-processor application.

• Strong Object Oriented design skills, including state machine and event driven design.

• Strong knowledge in embedded User Interface design and display device control.

• Strong knowledge in hardware-software interface and network communication.

• Strong knowledge in Hard Real Time Control and inter-processor communication.

• Strong knowledge of one or more of the Operating Systems and concepts, such as RTOS, WinCE, Linux, cooperative OS (CoRoutines), etc.

• Familiar with the microcontrollers and microprocessors such as ARM Application and Cortex architecture.

• Experience with developing unit tests, test automation,  and familiarity with UT frameworks (ex. CPPUnit, LDRA, Coverity, Parasoft)

Preferred Skills:

• Knowing one or more of the Development IDEs such as IAR, Keil, Eclipse, and/or Visual Studio

• Knowledge in JTAG debugging and error handling.

• Knowledge in Wi-Fi connectivity and security

• Knowing Python, Build Utilities, code analysis tools is plus

• Knowing Quantum State Machine, ThreadX, SMX is plus.

• Knowing XSLT, XML, HTML, is plus

• Familiar with Configuration Management and Issue Tracking systems

• Efficient worker who leverages the latest technology and tools to improve productivity

• Design for Six Sigma knowledge would be highly advantageous

• Customer focused

• Knowledge of international standards applicable to medical devices / risk management including ISO 60601-1, ISO