Advanced Software Engineer

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

As an Advanced Software Engineer, you will architect, design, and develop software solutions for market leading sterilization and disinfection devices for the healthcare and life sciences industries. You will perform software system analyses to develop new and innovative solutions for our Customers;  Develop software solution frameworks for platforms and projects; Collaboratively design software system architecture and detailed design that provides required system functionality;  Identify and evaluate appropriate technologies;  Review software designs for compliance with established architecture;  Provide technical feasibility of new product concepts;  Implement designs following established coding standards and methods.

Duties

• Identify inconsistencies and formulate solutions to complex and ambiguous technical problems.
• Develop software designs according to architecture that meet defined product specifications.
• Propose solutions and technical direction for future development efforts.
• Use appropriate design principles to ensure robust, maintainable software applications.
• Provide in-depth design reviews to ensure designs can meet product’s functional and performance requirements.

Duties - cont'd

• Mentor junior engineers to propagate good design principles and development practices throughout the team.
• Investigate new software technologies and tools and appropriate application.
• Ensure software architecture, design, and interface specifications comply with department guidelines and can fulfill requirements.
• Strive for continuous improvement in software design techniques.  
• Provide software design and implementation support for potentially multiple projects
• Actively participates in investigation of next generation control systems and connectivity solutions.
• Deliver complete and accurate software documentation in accordance with STERIS operating procedures including software architecture, requirements, detailed design, interface specifications, code review reports, and unit test reports.
• Provide refined software estimates for project planning.

Required Experience

•    Eight years of progressive experience in the design, development, and implementation of embedded Windows and/or Linux based software systems utilizing both structured and object-oriented concepts using C++.
•    Six or more years of experience in design and implementation of multi-tasking and multi-threaded systems.
•    Demonstrated technical expert within a software development organization.
•    Understanding of development for a resource-constrained target environment with specific performance requirements.
•    Experience in development using various operating systems, including real-time operating systems (RTOS), such as ThreadX, RTXC, Linux, Windows (standard or embedded).
•    Knowledge of YOCTO or BSP development for ARM platform.

•    Demonstrated knowledge of Internet of Things (IoT) and associated solutions is desired, e.g., remote monitoring solutions.
•    Knowledge and experience with standard communication and network protocols.
 

 

Preferred Experience

•    Advanced degree in Engineering or related field desired
•    Engineering experience within a highly regulated industry
•    Certification or training coursework in software security
•    4+ years’ experience of software development in C, Modern C++highly desirable
•    1+ years’ experience in network communication interfaces desirable
•    Experience performing risk assessments desirable.
•    Experience with formal design and requirement tools is desirable.
•    Experience with assessing cybersecurity risks and designing appropriate mitigations is highly preferred.
 

Skills:

Technical Excellence:

Identifies problems and formulates solutions to complex and ambiguous technical problems.
Identifies and develops new technical ideas.

Execution & Accountability:

Acts as an expert resource and mentor to others.
Challenges established work processes and proactively finds creative solutions.

Strategic Thinking:

Determine required tasks and complete on time with no supervision.
Identifies and communicates potential risks with appropriate mitigations.

Judgment & Decision Making:

Addresses routine technical problems by leading a team to brainstorm solutions.
Ability to make well-informed and effective decisions even when data are limited.
 

What STERIS Offers:

The opportunity to