The Job Responsibilities

Draeger Medical Systems, Inc., Andover, MA seeks Staff Software Engineers - Design, develop, enhance, and maintain complex software components and subsystems supporting clinical and healthcare software products that include performing software development in C, C++, VC++/MFC/COM/ATL, C#.NET, Java and Objective-C. Perform full software development lifecycle activities, including requirements analysis, system and software design, implementation, build and deployment, verification and validation, release planning, risk analysis, and configuration management. Define and contribute to the architecture and design of real-time and distributed clinical software systems, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability. Implement and support healthcare system interoperability and secure data exchange between clinical systems in compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. Develop, integrate, and validate secure communication mechanisms to protect clinical data exchanged across distributed healthcare and medical device environments including TLS for unicast and custom secure protocols for multicast. Design, optimize, and automate clinical workflows across imaging, patient monitoring, and integrated hospital systems to improve operational efficiency and clinical usability. Coordinate and lead software engineering activities by providing technical guidance, conducting design and code reviews, and mentoring engineers to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of software modules and subsystems. Contribute to the development and validation of clinical software features while ensuring compliance with all internal SOPs and FDA regulations and medical device software standards. Ensure adherence to internal standard operating procedures and regulatory requirements by supporting audit trails, requirements traceability, and post-market surveillance activities. Drive the enhancement and modernization of existing software systems by improving architecture, maintainability, and scalability while preserving validated clinical workflows including refactoring and migrating monolithic C++/C# codebases without disrupting validated workflows. Plan and execute software verification activities, including unit, subsystem, and integration testing, as well as defect reproduction, analysis, and resolution.

Your Qualifications

Requires Bachelor’s (or foreign educ. equiv.) Degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer and Information Technology or related field and five (5) yrs. (post-degree, progressive) experience in Job Offered or related.  Experience must have included Performing software development in C, C++, VC++/MFC/COM/ATL, C#.NET, Java and Objective-C; Full software development lifecycle including requirements analysis, architecture, design, implementation, verification/validation, release planning, risk analysis, and configuration management; Design and architecture of real time clinical systems including deterministic systems, server applications and distributed communication frameworks; Implementing and ensuring healthcare system interoperability and secure data exchange using standards including DICOM, HL7, IHE, and HIPAA-compliant protocols; Developing and integrating secure communication frameworks, including TLS for unicast and custom secure protocols for multicast; Designing and automating clinical workflows across imaging systems and the broader hospital device ecosystem;  Leading and mentoring engineering teams, including architectural guidance, code reviews and cross-team coordination; Implementation of image processing algorithms for the ACR accreditation tests to determine the quality of the MRI coil elements and ensuring FDA software and regulatory compliance as it relates to 21 CFR Part 11, IEC 62304 and ISO 13485; Performing audit-trail, traceability, post-market surveillance and SOP compliance; Driving legacy system modernization, including refactoring and migrating monolithic C++/C# codebases without disrupting validated workflows; and Executing engineering and reliability verification through unit, subsystem, integration, stress/scale testing and detailed defect analysis. $178,131/yr.

Send resume to [email protected] and must refer to Ref. #1277.