# Principal Software Applications Engineer (Hybrid)

Role: The Principal Software Development Engineer, will bring with them skills and experience in desktop software design and implementation. Works side-by-side with software, electrical, mechanical engineers, and scientists to design and create software code within our products to achieve design goals. This position is in a cross functional team that is working to develop future generations of our corneal therapy system. The Principal Software Development Engineer will contribute to product design & development, testing, risk analysis, design for reliability, and design for manufacturability of existing and next generation products. The Principal Software Development Engineer will work with Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, Operations, Quality and Marketing/Sales; meeting performance, quality, and cost goals, while optimizing time to market How You’ll Contribute: The Principal Software Development Engineer will bring with them skills and experience in desktop software design and implementation. Reporting to the Director of Software Development, the Principal Software Development Engineer works side-by-side with software, electrical, mechanical engineers, and scientists to design an

- **Id**: 3853647
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/planet-pharma-principal-software-applications-engineer-hybrid>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Burlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T14:17:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4172
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4467183
- **Name**: Planet Pharma
- **Domain**: planet-pharma.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/planet-pharma>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 5
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **21 CFR Part 820** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Design Controls** — Optional: no
- **IEC 62304** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **MVVM** — Optional: yes
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T05:00:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 17
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.313
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 5
- **Reasons**: conf:5, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

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