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Principal Systems Engineer

Marlborough, MA, United States

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities

This Systems Engineer will join a team of engineers responsible for the deployment, development and support of the Hologic ThinPrep products. These products are FDA approved medical laboratory devices which process samples and image slides. They are highly sophisticated electro-mechanical devices which are usually networked together. Imaging systems include a great deal of image data which is analyzed, stored, viewed, and archived. This position is for a software engineer who will be tasked with helping deploy the systems at scale, troubleshooting and testing deployment configurations, and advising the development of products.

Initially, work will focus on critical connectivity solutions for the Genius Digital Diagnostics System. Will be responsible for deployment of Windows Server-based systems into customer environments (on-premise and/or data center). This candidate will own, augment, and improve installation mechanisms and deployment configurations for the software.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for enhancements and new products

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects

• Communicate effectively and constructively

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship

• Lead technical discussions about technology and infrastructure

• Define and execute projects independently, deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems

• Ability to perform all software development lifecycle functions including: specification, design, development, debugging, verification and validation testing, and documentation

• Enhance existing deployment code through refactoring

• Code Review

• Root cause analysis and defect resolution

• Use company design and development processes

Qualifications

• Position is based in Marlborough, MA. In office work of 3 days per week or greater is preferred

• Ability to communicate effectively & constructively

• Ability to work independently on all software development and technical management tasks

• Strong written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Proficiency in Windows Server 2016 and later is required · Experience with SQL Server databases and replication (hot-hot, hot-warm, read-write segmentation, etc.) experience is required

• Understanding of complex deployments of Windows Server is required

• Proficiency in C#, .NET Framework/Core, ASP.NET and associated techniques strongly desired

• Experience with C# WPF or similar UI frameworks is desired

• Experience with service-based architectures (REST API, etc.) is desired

• Experience with application identity management (authorization, authentication, certificates, tokens, etc.) is a plus

• Knowledge of networking and distributed software architectures such as client-server, peer-to-peer, and event driven.

• Thorough familiarity with Windows operating system is required.

• Knowledge of cloud-based software development and deployment is desired.

• Skilled in software architecture, design and proficient in high level programming language

• Skilled in writing software design documentation · Experience with common software security techniques (file and database encryption, secure communication protocols, etc.) is a plus

Experience

• Minimum of 8 years experience in software development, ideally contributing to the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build, test, etc.

• Requires prior experience working in an integrated team environment

• Experience working in an FDA regulated environment is a plus

• Experience with software control development and management platforms (JIRA, Github, Visual Studio, VSCode, NodeJS) is a plus

Education

• BS/BA required in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

• MS a plus

The annualized base salary range for this role is $146,300 to $205,100 and is bonus eligible. Final compensation packages will ultimately depend on factors including relevant experience, skillset, knowledge, geography, education, business needs and market demand.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Agencies that submit a resume to Hologic must have a current executed Hologic Agency Agreement executed by a member of the Human Resource Department. In addition Agencies may only submit candidates to positions for which they have been invited to do so by a Hologic Recruiter. All resumes must be sent to the Hologic Recruiter under these terms or they will not be considered.

Must follow all applicable FDA regulations and ISO requirements.

Hologic is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disabled and veterans, (F/M/D/V)