Software Engineer (Pittsburgh, PA)

Software Engineer (Pittsburgh, PA)

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew, we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.

The Software Engineer will participate in the entire software development life-cycle which includes reviewing requirements, doing design, implementing the design, unit testing and integration testing. To enable UX/UI design you may also be required to create wireframes to enable things such as A/B testing. Loves all aspects of software development and relishes creating products via software that delights our customers. You will visit clinical environments to ensure you have a sound understanding of the clinical context.

What will you be doing?

1. Assists with the design, development and maintenance of large scale and distributed systems software.
2. Investigates design approaches, prototypes concepts and evaluates technical feasibility.
3. Continuously monitors industry for best practices and drives a culture of engineering excellence.
4. Works in an Agile/Scrum environment and delivers highest quality software against aggressive schedules.
5. Embraces engineering processes not just for compliance but because they drive improvements in quality, better customer experience and better product/market fit.
6. Knows the value of robust design, unit testing, code review and integration testing and ensures these engineering practices are always followed.
7. Creates requirement documentation and when possible automates the process of creating documents using tools such as Doxygen.

What will you need to be successful?

1. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or related fields preferred.
2. Internship experience in software engineering.
3. Knowledge of C++ and other object oriented languages.
4. Knowledge of Linux operating systems including internals of Linux.
5. Has worked in an Agile/Scrum environment.
6. Background in computer vision.
7. Knowledge of software tools such as GIT, JIRA and build tools such as Make and CMake.
8. Ability to describe design using UML.

Smith+Nephew is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Smith+Nephew will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please alert the recruiter if you are selected to move forward.

Smith+Nephew provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.