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Senior Research Software Engineer – St Paul (Little Canada) Tech Center The Senior Research Software Engineer is a critical technical contributor to building compelling products within Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) Division, specifically Abbott’s EnSite™ Cardiac Mapping System.
In this role, you will build and deploy versions of the EnSite™ Cardiac Mapping software.
You will work closely with scientists and engineers in Applied Research and in Human Factors Engineering to help define, prototype, and refine new algorithms and GUI components and incorporate them into new versions of research software.
You will participate in benchtop and preclinical testing to validate your ideas, interact directly with customers to hear and understand their feedback, and help to transfer successful features into future versions of commercial software.
Your work will result in valuable intellectual property, and you will know that your efforts directly advance the state of the art and help to better diagnose and treat patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
Primary Duties And Responsibilities Work with Software Development engineers to understand the overall software architecture and to keep current with the process to create custom research builds of EnSite™ system software.
Work with Applied Research scientists and engineers to understand, prototype, and refine a wide variety of signal processing and 3D graphics algorithms, and to incorporate new algorithm ideas into research versions of EnSite™ software.
Work with Human Factors engineers to understand, prototype, and refine GUI concepts, and to incorporate them into research versions of EnSite™ software.
Test algorithms and GUI concepts through hands-on bench testing and participation in preclinical procedures.
Document the design and performance of new features in clearly written reports and participate in reviews with cross-functional teams.
Provide support for invention disclosures and research publications.
Required Qualifications : B.S., M.S.
or PhD Degree in any science or engineering discipline.
5 years of practical software experience specifically using C++.
Advanced education may substitute for some years of experience.
Strong working knowledge of Linux and SW development tools such as Visual Studio, Jira, Perforce.
Strong technical communication skills including spoken and written English.
Preferred GUI development and/or prototyping experience with Qt/QML, Axure, Adobe XD, or similar tools.
Strong background in mathematics, practical experience with signal processing.
Experience with multithreading, OpenGL graphics, Matlab, Python, statistical analysis.
Experience with medical device development, especially related to cardiac electrophysiology.
Medical device development experience and IEC60601-1, IEC62304 and related IEC standard familiarity preferred.
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