Principal Engineer 3D Imaging & Algorithms

Principal Engineer 3D Imaging & Algorithms

Principal Engineer 3D Imaging & Algorithms

Do you have a demonstrated track record of defining and driving the execution of a software technical roadmap, leveraging deep hands‑on engineering expertise while simultaneously coaching and mentoring a high‑performing team? Join us!

Your role:

• Lead complex projects independently and across multiple teams, demonstrating strong initiative and problem‑solving skills, exhibit principal‑level engineering and architecture expertise, establishing best practices and making practical tech decisions.
• Driving a results‑oriented approach, unblocking teams and maintaining a "getting things done" mentality.
• Taking ownership of identifying and solving high‑value problems, proactively improving team and organizational outcomes.
• Collaborating effectively across roles, earning respect from engineers to business stakeholders through strong communication and hands‑on involvement.
• Mentoring engineers at all levels while staying current with industry trends and continuously sharing knowledge across teams.
• Design and maintaining image processing algorithms and evaluation frameworks, with an emphasis on classical computer vision, 3D geometry, and deep learning.
• Document and present progress in algorithm design, development, and evaluation (requirements/design/architecture/bugs/tests).
• Write efficient, reusable, scalable, test‑driven and well documented code.
• Lead code reviews for projects/systems as an independent reviewer applying design principles, coding standards and best practices.

You're the right fit if:

Minimum Required Qualifications

Education

MSc. Or PhD Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

Work Experience

Minimum 10 years of experience in areas such as Software Development, Software Design and Architecture, Testing and Quality Assurance or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record in designing & developing medical devices / products as a product (requirements) owner holding a system thinking mindset.
• 10+ years of experience in software development, and at least 3 years of experience as an architect, technical product owner or staff engineer in an agile development environment with a passion for software and keeping up to date with software technology and related areas.
• Able to create impact beyond your direct scope, contributing to the bigger organizational asks. Being a true knowledge multiplier and bringing iApps to the next level.
• Experience working in and cooperating with high‑performing teams, ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing, being able to translate a software product roadmap into clear architectural designs and implementation. You can bring your point across to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience with high performance software design and development, design patterns, SOLID principles, TDD and Clean architecture.
• Respected for being hands‑on and fully up to speed with modern SW technologies (e.g. C++20, 3D rendering with DirectX/OpenGL and computational geometry), configuration management and deployment systems, GitHub, package management, orchestration tools, Docker, cloud computing and on‑prem deployments on multiple operating systems.
• Experience with 3D Vision and projective geometry, computer graphics and deep learning/machine learning for computer vision as well as practical applications of classical computer vision and machine learning techniques to increase 3D medical image quality.
• Excellent writing and verbal communication skills.

How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office‑based teams, this means working in‑person at least 3 days per week.

This role is an office role.

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