Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Sparks, MD

Duration: 12+ Months

1st Shift

Description:

The Becton Dickinson Diagnostics Systems (BDDS) division is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a member of the Product Engineering team responsible for supporting existing medical instrumentation and software. The right candidate is a positive, forward-looking person who must be self-directed requiring minimal daily direction, collaborates often and effectively with project team members of differing disciplines, presents a positive and professional demeanor with customers, and excels at solving difficult problems.

Medical instrumentation product issues arise from a number of different possibilities including software but also mechanical, electrical and system interaction. This requires someone who thinks on their feet and is willing to dive into a problem to understand it from all angles before deciding upon a solution path.

The candidate will need to possess excellent software skills to be able to assess product issues and apply solutions that best fit the situation. The role requires the addition of new features to existing products, correcting software anomalies, and rewriting less-than-optimized sections of existing software, all which require detailed attention to implementation and product risk for medical instruments.

The Senior Software Engineer will participate in a full medical software development life cycle and adhere to a quality management system.

Responsibilities:

. Assist in leading a software development project which includes

creating the time/resource estimation effort, regular updating of status in a project schedule.

. Ability to work well with customer service technical staff to

identify and document issues and the associated solutions

. Architect/design system software components for medical

instrumentation platforms

. Hands on development effort as well as possibly technically

leading a small team of software engineers

. Interface with other technical departments such as Systems,

Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering functions

. Interface with Quality, Regulatory, Marketing and Project

Management

. Architect/design/implement/recommend new software component

designs or enhancements to existing software products; leads in the implementation of more complex subsystems and systems.

. Document updated design documentation with change information

. Demonstrate proper coding techniques including maintainability,

reuse, unit testing, and commenting, driving standards within the team

. Develops automated unit test cases to assure software meets the

design criteria

. Collaborate with other BD resources to ensure effective design and

implementation goals

. Lead technical design reviews and code inspections providing

clear, actionable feedback for project team members

. Assure adherence to BDDS development policies and software quality

procedures

Qualifications:

. BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical

Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other related engineering field is required

. Minimum of 6 years of experience in software development, systems

& architecture concepts and designs

. Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal

skills are essential

. Minimum of 3 years work experience with C /.NET development

. Minimum of 3 years of experience with relational database

technologies

Required Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

. Experience with multi-threaded development in Windows - Windows

Embedded

. Experience with Agile including Scrum

. Demonstrated ability to comprehend and debug complex software

systems

. Demonstrated positive work ethic with a strong commitment to

achieving project goals

. Experience working in a regulated (FDA) environment and previous

development with medical instrumentation is a plus

. Experience with electro/opto-mechanical instrumentation

development is a plus

. Experience with serial protocols (rs232, rs485, rs422)

Preferred Skills:

. Experience with VxWorks operating System is a plus

. Minimum of 2 years work experience with C/C

. Minimum of 1 year work experience with Ethernet and TCP/IP socket

development

. Minimum of 2 years work experience writing automated unit tests

. Minimum of 2 years expereience with SQL server, entity Framework,

LINQ