DESCRIPTION OF TEAM/DEPARTMENT:

Would you like to help invent the future of healthcare? The Focused Ultrasound Lab at Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing a revolutionary medical device to non-invasively treat brain tumours and a variety of neurological disorders using focused ultrasound (FUS). The engineering team is looking for a committed, motivated, and experienced individual to aid in software development for this device.
The successful candidate will join our talented and growing team, and bring their passion to developing professional-grade and safety-critical medical software. This is a DevOps role with a 70/30 split between production code development and operations duties. Software development activities may include algorithm design, parallel processing, user interface development, image processing, and three-dimensional mesh manipulation. Software operations activities may include building automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring stability and availability for teams, and troubleshooting general infrastructure issues.

The Successful Candidate Can Expect

• A safe, supportive, friendly, and diverse working environment.
• Excellent mentorship from experienced engineers and scientists.
• Encouragement to try new and innovative ways to solve difficult problems.
• A competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer engineering, computer science (or equivalent with a focus on software design and development).
• 2+ years industry experience as a software engineer, using object-oriented languages (e.g. C++, Python, etc.); bonus if lower-level languages (e.g. C) was also used.
• Experience working within a multi-disciplinary environment while effectively communicating concepts across teams.
• Experience working with, or integrating, open-source projects.
• Experience with software testing frameworks and best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean and readable code conforming to project-specific coding conventions.
• Experience with OS administration in Linux and comfort working in terminal environments.
• General knowledge of computer networking and security fundamentals.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with frameworks such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar.

The following qualifications are not required but would be beneficial:

• Familiarity with medical imaging or related fields with knowledge of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and image processing.
• Experience with event-driven programming and familiarity with the MVC architecture.
• Experience with GUI development via Qt or similar frameworks.
• Medical image visualization and processing with libraries such as VTK or ITK.
• Three-dimensional mesh generation and manipulation with libraries such as VTK, PyMesh, MeshLab, or trimesh.
• Experience with mechanical computer-aided design (CAD).
• Experience conducting hardware-related testing in laboratory settings.

• Designing, developing, and maintaining professional-grade safety-critical medical software for use in real-world treatments.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.
• Contributing to software testing campaigns (verification and validation).
• Participating in code reviews.
• Contributing to documentation (code comments, design documentation, writing wikis, how-tos, etc.).
• Working with a mindset to continuously improve the software system with emphasis on safety and reliability.