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Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands.\nDentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality, and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dental care. Dentsply Sirona’s headquarter is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY. Visit www.dentsplysirona.com for more information about Dentsply Sirona and its products.\n\nWe are looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer to join our team as a Computer Graphics Product Owner for high-performance, interactive, cloud-based, CAD/CAM applications and AI models development, integration and deployment. This individual combines people leadership with end-to-end product ownership: building and growing a computer graphics engineering team, turning customer and clinical needs into clear requirements and design specifications, and steering features from idea to release across multiple epics. The role pairs strong 3D graphics domain knowledge with modern, AI-augmented ways of working to deliver quickly and with quality.\nThis is a hybrid position which requires working in the office 4 days per week.\nPrimary Job Responsibilities\nPeople Leadership & Chapter Development\nLead and grow a computer graphics team: hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance feedback and career development.\nDefine team standards, learning paths and best practices for 3D graphics and AI-assisted engineering.\nBuild a culture of ownership, fast learning and responsible use of AI tools within and across teams.\nMentor engineers across multiple teams as a technical coach and advisor.\nProduct Ownership & Delivery\nOwn the computer graphics product backlog and roadmap; translate customer, clinical and business needs into prioritized epics, requirements and acceptance criteria.\nWrite and maintain design specifications, technical requirements and success metrics; run discovery, prototyping and validation with users.\nPlan, track and de-risk delivery across multiple epics, coordinating scope, timelines, dependencies and resources.\nRun fast product-development cycles (rapid prototyping, short feedback loops, incremental releases) from concept to production.\nDrive cross-functional alignment between Product, UX, Clinical, Quality/Regulatory and Infrastructure teams.\nAI-Enabled Ways of Working\nIntroduce and champion multi-agent coding workflows (e.g., coding, review, test and documentation agents) with clear human oversight, guardrails and quality gates.\nIdentify and scope opportunities to embed AI features (e.g., 3D data analysis, automation, intelligent assistance) in the product, and own their value, risk and rollout.\nDefine metrics for AI-assisted productivity, quality and cost, and use them to continuously improve the process.\nCommunication & Impact\nPresent product strategy, roadmaps and complex technical trade-offs to diverse stakeholder groups, including leadership.\nDrive alignment on priorities and technical decisions across multiple teams and geographies.\nProvide company-wide mentorship and contribute to technical and product direction.\nQualifications\nEducation:\nBachelor's degree (and >12 years of work), Master's degree (and >10 years of work), or PhD (and > 7 years of work) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related fields (algorithmic, mathematical, or numerical background) with strong industry experience, or relevant experience.\nYears and Type of Experience:\n8+ years of engineering experience, including product-facing delivery of 3D computer graphics or CAD/CAM software.\nExperience in people management or chapter/team leadership (hiring, coaching, performance and career development).\nExperience as a product owner (or equivalent): backlog ownership, roadmap, requirements and design specifications.\nExperience managing projects across multiple teams and epics, end to end from concept to release.\nExperience working with AI coding assistants or agents in day-to-day development; experience shipping AI-enabled features is advantageous.\nExperience in medical device development is a plus.\nTrack record of successful product launches and of growing high-performing engineers is a plus.\nKey Skills, Knowledge & Capabilities:\nStrong people leadership: coaching, feedback, team building and conflict resolution.\nStrong product ownership skills: discovery, prioritization, requirements engineering, specification writing and stakeholder management.\nStrong project and delivery management skills (planning, estimation, risk and dependency management, agile at scale).\nFast product development mindset: rapid prototyping, MVP thinking, experimentation and data-informed iteration.\nHands-on working knowledge of multi-agent and agentic coding tools and workflows (task decomposition, prompt/context engineering, review and verification of AI-generated code).\nWorking knowledge of AI development and deployment concepts (AI training, evaluation, monitoring, cost, privacy and safety considerations).\nSolid knowledge of 3D computer graphics and the mathematics behind it, sufficient to guide technical direction and evaluate trade-offs.\nWorking knowledge of C++, cloud computing (e.g., GCP, Kubernetes) and CI/CD sufficient to partner effectively with engineering teams.\nProven cross-functional leadership and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nGood knowledge of English, both written and spoken. German language skills are advantageous.\nExperience with regulatory compliance (e.g., medical device software) is advantageous.\nNice to have: experience introducing or operating an agentic SDLC, where AI agents support requirements, specification, development, review, testing and documentation with defined human oversight, quality gates, success metrics, and traceability of AI-generated artifacts in a regulated (e.g., medical device) context.\nIndustry recognition and thought leadership is a plus.\nThe base salary and target annual incentive for this role located in Waltham, Massachusetts is between $183,700 - $205,700. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer: Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without unlawful discrimination or regard for race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual or gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable local law.\nEligibility: All successful applicants must be eligible to work in the country the position is based.\nAssistance: If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to .\nAgencies: Please note that Dentsply Sirona does not accept or respond to unsolicited requests or applications submitted by Recruitment Agencies/ Search Firms.\nNotice on Fraudulent Job Offers: Unfortunately, we are aware of third parties that pretend to represent our company offering unauthorized employment opportunities. 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