Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

About us

Neocis is an established start-up revolutionizing dentistry with Yomi, the first, and only FDA cleared robot for assisted dental surgery. The company collaborates closely with leading clinicians to develop innovative technologies that help advance patient care and improve quality of life. Based in Miami, Florida, Neocis is venture-backed with funding from several prominent investors.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll thrive in our innovative and collaborative environment
• Make an immediate impact on life-changing technology
• Avoid silos and “not my job” mentality in our smaller, fast-paced, startup environment
• We offer sabbatical, parental leave, and unlimited PTO policies
• Generous 401K plan with 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision.

The Role: The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for creating our surgical planning suite and the robot’s UI and voice interface. The planning suite is utilized by surgeons to create the roadmap that they will execute in unison with the robot during the operation. Your graphics and algorithm expertise will be used to display 3D anatomical visualizations of complex medical images and information, create tools to plan surgery, implement the voice commands to drive the robot interface, automatically find morphology in CT images, and much more. You will work with other world-class software, hardware, electronics, and mechanical design engineers.

What you’ll do:

• Create innovative prototypes and solutions to meet our company’s technical needs
• Analyze and design solutions for functional and nonfunctional software requirements
• Recommend modifications and improvements to Neocis’ products and services
• Design, code, and debug core components of the robot UI and surgical planning software
• Design, evolve, document, and ensure compliance with software architecture for rapid extensibility, deployability, reliability, and stability
• Lead, guide, train, mentor, and provide support to the application software team
• Perform design and code reviews of code developed by peers and more junior engineers
• Collaborate with technical departments to ensure efficient release of all product updates
• Facilitate communication across all levels and departments of the organization
• Drive, refine, and monitor engineering processes to enable fast-paced development
• Evaluate third-party tools and packages and recommend their incorporation into our architecture
• Maintain knowledge of industry developments

What you’ll bring:

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 12+ years of exceptional outcomes in object-oriented software design and implementation
• Proven ability to prioritize activities and consistently deliver projects on time
• Proven results architecting and implementing multiple large-scale projects
• Expert-level software design and architecture skills
• Hands-on, expert-level coding skills in multiple languages
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to contribute to Neocis IP
• Deep understanding of computer science, OO concepts, design patterns, and architectural approaches, and ability to assess strengths and weaknesses of design strategies
• Knowledge of a broad range of proprietary and open-source tool suites
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills on large-scale projects
• Strong team-building skills
• Experience leading and managing the software development lifecycle via agile methodologies
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner
• Strong skills in user interface design for software applications
• Extensive experience with computer graphics, linear algebra, and core image visualization concepts
• Experience with VTK/ITK, CGAL or other visualization libraries
• Familiar with CT scan images and DICOM protocol standards
• Experience with computer vision or image processing
• Experience with machine learning preferred
• Experience with medical device software preferred
• Familiarity with FDA regulations preferred
• Start-up experience preferred

What else?

• This is not a supervisory role
• The position will require (5%) travel in and out of state

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.