The Job Responsibilities

We’re hiring! If you want your contributions to make a real difference, check out this new career opportunity with us at Draeger, where we are guided by the principle “Technology for Life”.

This role is based out of our beautiful Andover, MA facility, which offers many benefits, including an onsite fitness center with yoga and fitness training classes, onsite game rooms, a full-service café, free parking and more.  Andover supports the design and assembly of our patient monitoring products.  This is a hybrid position, requiring a minimum of 3 days a week in the Andover MA office.

This position is responsible for product software architecture, design, implementation, and testing. This position establishes and enhances procedures to optimize development efficiency, software quality, and product cost.

Duties of the role:

• Work within a team of engineers and test personnel to produce high-quality deliverables during the design, implementation, integration, testing and support phases of product development. Independently diagnose, debug and resolve defects. Provide technical leadership to development teams; write technical requirements ; implement designs from technical specifications; develop software architectures; provide technical documentation; and translate designs into functional, tested software.
• Coordinate activities of other engineers and guide the successful, timely completion of SW modules and subsystems by setting clear goals, objectives
• Perform SW module unit testing, SW subsystem testing, and SW integration testing to ensure correct SW operation and quality. Mentor others to ensure best testing practices are used consistently and evolve in accordance with changing technical product specifications
• Provide advanced system level support to clinical engineers, quality engineers, service engineers and test personnel by executing tests, reproducing defects, documenting defect analysis in defect tracking system(s).
• Contribute technical insight and expertise to program planning, strategic planning and department-wide process improvement initiatives.
• Assist in team building and mentoring junior engineers by providing on-going technical guidance, review and assessment of development assignments.
• Comply with all internal SOPs and FDA and industry regulations. Develop and/or improve development processes, procedures and protocols.
• Utilize and enhance the software configuration management system to correctly maintain SW files.
• Able to build SW and install SW in a development and product environment.

Your Qualifications

Education:

BS Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience. MS Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years previous experience in software design, analysis and trouble shooting in an engineering environment.
• Experience requiring technical leadership within an advanced software development environment.
• Windows application, WIN32/MFC programming
• Windows batch programming
• Strong interest in exploring Windows internals to understand and troubleshoot unexpected system behaviors.
• Programming Languages: C++, Python
• Debugging in Visual Studio
• TCP/IP and UDP network programming
• Demonstrated ability to elicit, write, analyze, review, trace software requirements

Nice to have:

• Medical device or regulated industry experience
• Experience with UWF, Secure Boot, BitLocker
• C#
• CMake
• Ninja
• Secure programming

Compensation:

The targeted pay range for this position is typically between $140,000-$155,000. We note that the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.​ This position is eligible for an annual bonus.