Sr. Software Engineer

Job content

PerkinElmer is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join the Hopkinton Applied Genomics R&D team. This role will be responsible for supporting PerkinElmer Automation Liquid Handling and Microfluidics product lines. This position will require the ability to interface to a multi-disciplinary group as well as cross functions for the timely completion of projects. The successful candidate will have strong software design experience, as well as excellent interpersonal and communication skills required to work in an interdisciplinary environment with an internationally distributed team.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Improve performance and quality of existing software by solving bugs identified on the field
• Actively participate in daily stand-ups to prioritize/assign tasks ensuring implementation of most
  

effective technical solutions to meet business requirements within given deadlines

• Assay analysis algorithm development
• Create and edit project documents within the IVD product development framework under supervision of a project manager.
• Champion quality throughout the development process — direct risk assessment and mitigation
  

activities

• The goto person between various departments and customers: international developers, field service support/engineers, manufacturing and assay development team for support
• Technical lead on new software functionalities for new assay development; create new release documentation.
  

Education And Experience

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 4-5 years of industry experience in Software Engineering
• Track record of products launched successfully while executing end-to-end software development life cycle
  

Job Requirements

• Proficiency with C#/C++/C programming language and .NET/Visual Studio development tools
• Experienced with Agile Scrum development methodologies
• Experienced with version control (TFS), bug tracking systems and procedures
• Experience with communication protocols, such as CAN and TCP/IP
• Experience with high voltage, optics modules and microfluidics manufacturing
• Microfluidics product development experience strong preferred
• Firmware development experience preferred
• Knowledgeable with SQL Server or Oracle database preferred
• Experience working and highly distributed international teams
• Familiarity with medical device development (21 CFR – Part 11)
• Experience with automated builds, automated test runs, and commercial installers a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication and collaboration skills
  

Strong sense of ownership, passionate, detail-oriented, analytical mindset, perfection seeker