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They will have the responsibility and authority to develop and perform activities for software development to ensure ATEC’s cutting edge medical products meet our user's needs and our quality and reliability standards. This position requires application of technical expertise to independently determine and develop approaches to solve complex technical problems with ingenuity and creativity.\nProvide technical leadership and mentoring to other software and test engineers. Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and documenting/validating software applications. Participate in all phases of product development as needed such as reviewing requirements, design, usability, risk assessment, and testing execution. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments. Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, software and test engineers.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities\nTechnical leadership in development of intra-op spine navigation applications, including software architectural design, prioritization and planning of feature development, cross-functional collaboration to drive regulatory approval (510k), and contribution to future roadmap decisions\nDesign and implement high quality applications and frameworks targeting the Unix/Linux platform\nDesign and implement application software in C++\nPerform integration and system level testing of software and software/hardware systems\nCollaborate with marketing and cross-functional R&D teams to support evaluation, prioritization, and detailed definition of future product features\nDevelop documentation related to software development projects (design artifacts, test plans/cases, etc.)\nPerform task estimation and develop software projects according to project plan\nManage multiple tasks/projects and priorities\nMentor the Junior resources and take the ownership of the end-to-end module delivery\nAttend surgical cases, engage with surgeons, and maintain familiarity with current company endeavors across technical areas\nWork closely with R&D and Marketing teams to support clinical prototyping, testing, and formal evaluation in cadaveric surgical lab settings\nAbility to travel up to 15% of the time\nRequirements\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nProven success in providing technical direction for medical devices used in an intra-operative clinical setting. Experience with surgical navigation highly desired.\nExperienced at delivering robust and reliable mission critical medical device systems (IEC 62304)\nProficient in C++ development in Linux environment. Experience with Qt framework is a plus\nProven experience in architectural design decisions and tradeoffs for evolving codebases (e.g. rewrite vs. retain, code framework and language choices, architecture decisions)\nFluent with 3D spatial geometry for navigation systems, including coordinate transforms, linear algebra, registration\nFluency with 3D volumetric imaging (such as CT, CBCT, MRI) and medical image data formats (DICOM)\nExperience with image processing and rendering toolkits such as VTK, ITK, OpenCV\nExperience building and testing software applications that use 2D-to-3D image registration. 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