(On-site) Software Engineer (Professional Technologist 4) - Department of Radiology

The Department of Radiology at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a Software Engineer (Professional Technologist 4).

About the Opportunity

The primary purpose of this position is to lead development of world-class biomedical imaging software to support the imaging research agenda of the Center for Advanced Imaging at the WVU Radiology Department. The person working in this position will also work with others at the Radiology department to provide solutions for their data acquisition, analysis, storage and presentation needs by designing, developing, testing, packaging, deploying, and maintaining software and associated data.

What You'll Do

Software Engineering

• Maintain current software tools used in the current already developed imagers
• Assure software upgrades and modifications for the current software, when necessary, through personal effort and/or outsourcing
• Review the (research, medical) software needs and level of implementation for all developed systems
• Perform definition of user software needs for new planned systems
• Develop system specific spec lists and methods of implementation
• Test plan definition and implementation for performance and usability
• Perform usability studies
• Perform Database, User Interface and middleware development
• Provide system documentation for users/partners (other researchers, technologists, clinicians, partnering industrial engineers)
• Provide training for users: researchers, technologists and doctors
• Collaborate closely with in-house personnel and outside partners developing data acquisition system and motion control development and provide feedback to data acquisition system development
• Engineer critical infrastructure components to support image and patient data storage and retrieval,
  user interface and middleware on dedicated medical imagers developed in the CAI nuclear medicine imaging instrumentation program

Technology Transfer

• Maintain lab notebook and development journals to document Intellectual Property development
• Coordinate interaction with the WVU technology transfer office and outside industrial partners
• Manage transfer of software from the laboratory environment to pre-commercial and commercial prototypes
• Complete disclosures and patent applications, whenever applicable

Skills and Service

• Work on skill improvements via professional development and continued education
• Attend research-relevant conferences
• Present papers on software engineering projects
• Work with students and lead/supervise their software related projects or tasks
• Evaluate new software and hardware technologies for applicability in imaging systems developed
  by the lab.
• Manage external communications for example via blog/podcast/wiki/Facebook/university web site

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in programming with Python and scripting languages
• Any equivalent combination of related education, certifications, and/or experience will be considered.
• All qualifications must be met by the time of employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree
• System administration experience
• Experience with developing data acquisition software for medical imaging applications
• Experience with nuclear medicine biomedical imaging environment and applications
• Exposure to or experience with computer physics simulation packages
• Understanding of or interest in physics concepts of nuclear medicine imaging

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Programming
• Operating systems: Linux, Mac, Windows
• User Interface design and implementation

• Usability testing

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