Staff Software Engineer Python

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (with SDK & Medical Device) - 2 roles

Location: Manhattan, NY

Duration: Full-Time (FTE)

Schedule: Remote Role with some travel

Role 1 - Required: Strong experience with Modern C++ (C++14 or higher) along with SDK development and Medical Devices domain experience.

Role 2 - Required: Strong experience with Python, along with SDK development and Medical Devices domain experience.

Job Description:

Core Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical owner and architect for a Python or C++ - based SDK controlling an ultrasound imaging device.
• Lead SDK design decisions with a focus on API clarity, usability, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Rapidly learn complex device behavior, imaging workflows, and system constraints to make informed design decisions.
• Work autonomously to define requirements, propose solutions, and execute with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, imaging, systems, and product teams to define control and data interfaces.
• Design abstractions for device configuration, image acquisition, real-time data streaming, and system state management.
• Establish best practices for SDK architecture, testing strategy, documentation standards, and release processes.
• Ensure SDK robustness, performance, and reliability in hardware-integrated and real-time contexts.
• Drive SDK versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation policies, and partner-facing release strategy.
• Create and maintain high-quality developer documentation, examples, and reference implementations.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers contributing to the SDK or adjacent platform components.
• Support internal teams and external partners with integration, debugging, and advanced use cases.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Extensive professional experience with Python in production environments.
• Proven experience designing and owning SDKs, platforms, or shared libraries used by multiple teams or external users.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn complex systems involving hardware, firmware, or imaging pipelines.
• Experience interfacing Python with C/C++ or low-level device APIs.
• Familiarity with automatic cross-language wrapper generation (Djinni, SWIG).
• Strong architectural and system design skills with an emphasis on clean, intuitive APIs.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and drive work forward with minimal direction.
• Experience with concurrency models in Python (threading, multiprocessing, async).
• Low level resource management and multithreading execution (GIL, DMA, serial, USB, etc.).
• Strong testing discipline, including unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop testing strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for technical documentation and cross-team alignment.