Software Engineer

Hologic

San Diego, CA, United States$109,900 - $171,800Full-timePosted 1mo ago

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Our Software Engineering (R&D) department is looking for a Software Engineer here in San Diego! Bringing your C# and Software Engineering expertise to strengthen our group, you will be part of building exciting new medical device products. This is an opportunity to work on all aspects of the product software, including desktop applications, services and data layer. You will contribute to design, process and software quality improvements, and test them on multiple instrumentation platforms (Panther System, Panther Fusion System) and a menu of assays (Aptima STIs, Aptima Virology, Panther Fusion Respiratory) for our automated molecular diagnostic instruments. 

This is a fully onsite role in San Diego, CA.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects.
  • Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.
  • Participate and lead technical discussions about technology and infrastructure 
  • Define and execute projects independently, deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems 
  • Software requirements and specification definition 
  • Software design and development
  • Assay algorithm design and development 
  • Enhance existing code through refactoring
  • Code Review
  • Unit and acceptance testing
  • Root cause analysis and defect resolution 
  • Documentation 
  • Participate and/or lead in Agile planning, scrum and retrospectives
  • Use company design and development processes 
  • Mentor junior engineers

Required Qualifications and Experience    

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent plus 5 years of related experience or MS plus 3+ years of related experience
  • Requires prior experience working in an integrated team environment 
  • Medical device experience a plus

Skills

  • Technologies: C#, WPF, gRPC preferred, .Net framework, MSSQL, LINQ
  • Tools: Visual Studio, GitHub, JIRA, Code Review Tools 
  • Knowledge of Unit Test frameworks required. Examples:  XUnit, NUnit, CodedUI, MSTest
  • Knowledge of UI design and prototyping required 
  • Knowledge of multithreaded UI development required 
  • Knowledge of Design Patterns required 
  • Knowledge of Entity Framework a plus

So why join Hologic?

We are committed to making Hologic the company where top talent comes to grow. For you to succeed, we want to enable you with the tools and knowledge required and so we provide comprehensive training when you join as well as continued development and training throughout your career. We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme, one of our talent partners can discuss this in more detail with you.

If you have the right skills and experience and want to join our team, apply today. We can’t wait to hear from you!

The annualized base salary range for this role is $109,900 to $171,800 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.

Hologic, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer inclusive of disability and veterans.

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