Research Software Developer (SRI) - Physical Sciences - Regular Full-time 2025-14841

Description of Team/Department:
 

Would you like to help invent the future of healthcare? The Focused Ultrasound Lab at Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing a revolutionary medical device to non-invasively treat brain tumours and a variety of neurological disorders using focused ultrasound (FUS). The engineering team is looking for a committed, motivated, and experienced individual to aid in software development for this device.

The successful candidate will join our talented and growing team, and bring their passion to developing professional-grade and safety-critical medical software. This is a DevOps role with a 70/30 split between production code development and operations duties. Software development activities may include algorithm design, parallel processing, user interface development, image processing, and three-dimensional mesh manipulation. Software operations activities may include building automated CI/CD pipelines, ensuring stability and availability for teams, and troubleshooting general infrastructure issues.

The Successful Candidate Can Expect

• A safe, supportive, friendly, and diverse working environment.
• Excellent mentorship from experienced engineers and scientists.
• Encouragement to try new and innovative ways to solve difficult problems.
• A competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

Summary of Duties:

· Designing, developing, and maintaining professional-grade safety-critical medical software for use in real-world treatments.

· Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.

· Contributing to software testing campaigns (verification and validation).

· Participating in code reviews.

· Contributing to documentation (code comments, design documentation, writing wikis, how-tos, etc.).

· Working with a mindset to continuously improve the software system with emphasis on safety and reliability.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer engineering, computer science (or equivalent with a focus on software design and development).

· 2+ years industry experience as a software engineer, using object-oriented languages (e.g. C++, Python, etc.); bonus if lower-level languages (e.g. C) was also used.

· Experience working within a multi-disciplinary environment while effectively communicating concepts across teams.

· Experience working with, or integrating, open-source projects.

· Experience with software testing frameworks and best practices.

· Demonstrated ability to write clean and readable code conforming to project-specific coding conventions.

· Experience with OS administration in Linux and comfort working in terminal environments.

· General knowledge of computer networking and security fundamentals.

· Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with frameworks such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar.

The following qualifications are not required but would be beneficial:

· Familiarity with medical imaging or related fields with knowledge of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and image processing.

· Experience with event-driven programming and familiarity with the MVC architecture.

· Experience with GUI development via Qt or similar frameworks.

· Medical image visualization and processing with libraries such as VTK or ITK.

· Three-dimensional mesh generation and manipulation with libraries such as VTK, PyMesh, MeshLab, or trimesh.

· Experience with mechanical computer-aided design (CAD).

· Experience conducting hardware-related testing in laboratory settings.