(On-site) Software Engineer (Professional Technologist 4) - Department of Radiology

West Virginia University

11d • Onsite

About The Position

The primary purpose of this position is to lead development of world-class biomedical imaging software to support the imaging research agenda of the Center for Advanced Imaging at the WVU Radiology Department. The person working in this position will also work with others at the Radiology department to provide solutions for their data acquisition, analysis, storage and presentation needs by designing, developing, testing, packaging, deploying, and maintaining software and associated data.
We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:
• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year (employee leave)
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6%25 employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in programming with Python and scripting languages
• Any equivalent combination of related education, certifications, and/or experience will be considered.
• All qualifications must be met by the time of employment.
• Programming
• Operating systems: Linux, Mac, Windows
• User Interface design and implementation
• Usability testing

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree
• System administration experience
• Experience with developing data acquisition software for medical imaging applications
• Experience with nuclear medicine biomedical imaging environment and applications
• Exposure to or experience with computer physics simulation packages
• Understanding of or interest in physics concepts of nuclear medicine imaging

Responsibilities

• Maintain current software tools used in the current already developed imagers
• Assure software upgrades and modifications for the current software, when necessary, through personal effort and/or outsourcing
• Review the (research, medical) software needs and level of implementation for all developed systems
• Perform definition of user software needs for new planned systems
• Develop system specific spec lists and methods of implementation
• Test plan definition and implementation for performance and usability
• Perform usability studies
• Perform Database, User Interface and middleware development
• Provide system documentation for users/partners (other researchers, technologists, clinicians, partnering industrial engineers)
• Provide training for users: researchers, technologists and doctors
• Collaborate closely with in-house personnel and outside partners developing data acquisition system and motion control development and provide feedback to data acquisition system development
• Engineer critical infrastructure components to support image and patient data storage and retrieval, user interface and middleware on dedicated medical imagers developed in the CAI nuclear medicine imaging instrumentation program
• Maintain lab notebook and development journals to document Intellectual Property development
• Coordinate interaction with the WVU technology transfer office and outside industrial partners
• Manage transfer of software from the laboratory environment to pre-commercial and commercial prototypes
• Complete disclosures and patent applications, whenever applicable
• Work on skill improvements via professional development and continued education
• Attend research-relevant conferences
• Present papers on software engineering projects
• Work with students and lead/supervise their software related projects or tasks
• Evaluate new software and hardware technologies for applicability in imaging systems developed by the lab.
• Manage external communications for example via blog/podcast/wiki/Facebook/university web site

Benefits

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year (employee leave)
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6%25 employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees