Lead PLC Software Engineer

The Lead PLC Software Engineer will develop and support cutting edge software enabled products for customers in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. The holder of this position will gather requirements, prototype, design, develop, build, unit-test, document, including test and functional documentation, and package. The goal is to work closely with product management to define and shape the products.

Main Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Gather, analyze and define requirements for new complex software functionality with input from product managers, customer feedback, and internal product Development teams
• Engineer and develop sustainable software systems through the use of prototyping, clear software design, and participating in design reviews
• Write clear, easy to maintain, high quality code that is optimized for performance and memory usage
• Write comprehensive design, functional, and quality assurance test documentation
• Implement automated testing at the unit and nightly regression framework levels
• Validate correct software and hardware system operation
• Provide assistance to technical support team and product Development teams as needed
• Act as a Product owner/Technical Lead to define, refine and prioritize the requirements

Qualification & Skills:

• Academic degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a comparable scientific field
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in developing commercial software products
• Excellent development skills with proven high-level proficiency in C#, C/C++, XML
• Strong, demonstrable, object-oriented and software development skills and ability to work constructively in a team environment
• Good experience with modern software engineering processes and methodologies; experience in the various stages of the software engineering lifecycle
• Knowledge of one or more of the following desired: Windows Forms, WCF, WPF, SQL and database programming, hardware control/interfaces (serial, network, USB), graphical user interface development, memory and performance optimization, data analysis and visualization, graphing tools, and parallel programming
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Must have strong personal initiative and be results oriented