Team Description:
Kitware’s Medical Computing team solves complex healthcare challenges through customized software solutions. The team provides research, development, and technology integration services to research centers, universities and companies in the medical and biomedical sectors. By joining our team you will participate in a dynamic multidisciplinary work environment with exceptionally talented computer scientists, software engineers, mechanical engineers and biomedical engineers.
About the Projects:
We build powerful software solutions using our well-established open source platforms, including VTK, ITK, 3D Slicer, Pulse, iMSTK, CMake and ParaView. Our commercial projects involve generating solutions for medical device companies from ultrasound and preclinical imaging companies, to surgery device companies. Our research projects involve collaborations with top research institutions, including Harvard Medical School, MIT, the University of Utah, Cleveland Clinic, Duke University and others and build on our open source platforms.
In This Position You Will:
- Collaborate with our distributed research and development engineering team as well as external collaborators and customers to design and implement new features and fix bugs for our platforms and web applications.
- Contribute to the overall architecture design of web applications.
- Maintain scalability, code integrity, and usability of applications.
- Participate in our team’s software quality assurance practices.
- Translate scientific requirements of collaborators into technical and architectural application requirements.
- Apply scientific computing algorithms to solve medical computing problems with modern web technologies.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area, plus 3-5 years experience in web development, including turning design specifications into production APIs for clients.
- Strong knowledge of the modern browser programming environment, specifically JavaScript, ECMAScript, and/or Typescript and HTML/CSS.
- Experience building web-based medical image analysis and visualization applications.
- Back-end service programming experience in Python. Django, FastAPI or other framework experience is a plus.
- Proficiency with modern reactivity frameworks such as React.js, Vue.js, Angular.
- Experience integrating solutions with backend services, such as those specified by standards such as REST.
- Ability to translate UI/UX designs specified by tools such as Figma or Zeplin into functioning web applications.
- Experience with quality software process tools and methodologies, such as Git, continuous integration, and automated testing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with machine learning (deep learning) applications.
- Experience integrating client-side 2D/3D rendering libraries such as VTK.js, D3.js, Three.js or others.
- Numerical computing with TypedArrays, WebAssembly, WebGPU.
- Experience translating numerical (C/C++) algorithms to the web via WebAssembly or similar technologies.
Company Description:
Kitware is a research and development software solutions provider with a mission to advance science, make a positive impact, and share our results all within a collaborative, employee-focused work environment that is friendly, fair, and flexible. Our work is improving healthcare outcomes, increasing national security, and advancing our national computing infrastructure. Our customers and collaborators include top universities from around the world, government organizations, national research labs, medical device manufacturers, car manufacturers, financial institutions, and many others.
Kitware is proud to be 100% employee-owned, and Great Place to Work-Certified™.
Additional Information:
Our team members enjoy a small company environment, flexibility in work assignments, and high levels of independence and responsibility. Besides a great work environment, our comprehensive benefits package includes a competitive compensation plan, tuition reimbursement program, flexible working hours, six weeks paid time off, 401(k), health insurance, life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, bonus plan, and free coffee, drinks, and snacks. Kitware actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. To be in compliance with the requirements for federal government contractors, all Kitware new hires must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date. Kitware will consider exceptions for religious and medical reasons, where appropriate. “Fully vaccinated” means you must have both doses of a 2-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the second dose, or have received 1 dose of a 1-dose vaccine and two weeks have elapsed since the dose. Proof of your vaccination status in the form of a copy of a CDC vaccine card, or notice of approval of a religious or medical exemption by Kitware human resources, must be submitted prior to your start date.
Any unsolicited resume sent to Kitware, including to Kitware’s mailing addresses, fax machines or email addresses, whether directly to Kitware employees or to Kitware’s applicant tracking system, will be considered Kitware property. Kitware will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume, and will consider any candidate submitted by a recruitment agency without a fully executed contract with Kitware to have been referred free of any charges or fees.
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