Position Summary 

Under minimal supervision, perform software development activities, including software requirements, design, implementation, and integration. 

Essential Functions 

• Participates as an active member of a development team. This includes participating in requirements reviews, design reviews, code reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings.
• Participates as an active member of a project development team; This includes requirements change control, defect management, risk analysis, and release management.
• Creates/Maintains software requirements/functional specifications
• Identifies interfaces between software components and/or hardware
• Creates/Maintains software (component) design documentation
• Creates/Maintains software source code that adheres to design documentation
• Performs unit testing and/or code reviews as per project policy
• Performs integration testing to ensure software functions within the application and with devices
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements fixes to assigned software defects
• Evaluates, investigates, and implements assigned software change proposals

Key Relationships 

To be determined based on department needs, to include interactions such as: 

• Provides level of effort for assigned software activities
• Tracks personal estimates over time in order to improve accuracy
• Effectively communicates technical information to a multidisciplinary team in the form of documentation, presentations and technical summaries.
• Makes recommendations or suggestions for department improvements
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers

Skills & Capabilities 

The ideal candidate for this position will exhibit the following skills and capabilities: 

• Strong written and oral communications skills
• Ability to use software engineering tools: configuration, requirements, and defect management
• Ability to operate instrumentation
• C , linux, Qt

Qualifications 

Minimum Knowledge & Experience Required for the Position: 

Education 

• Associate's degree plus typically 4 to 10 years of related experience or bachelor's degree plus typically 4 to 8 years of related experience or master's degree plus typically 2 to 6 years of related experience or waiver based on experience. Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science.

Experience

• Proficiency in computer code (C, C , Java, C#, etc.) found in product development