Lead - Image Quality

Job Description SummaryLead Engineer – Image Quality (IQ) has the responsibility of computed tomography product development focusing on developing algorithms and tools to improve IQ over the lifecycle of the product.
Systems engineering is a cross-functional engineering discipline centered on an approach, mindset, and process. All activities that consider both the business and the technical needs of the customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the users needs. The discipline that executes a robust process of design, creation, and optimization of systems, consisting of identification and quantification of system requirements, creation of alternate system design concepts, performance of design trade studies, selection and implementation of the best designs and verification that the design is properly integrated and executed. Process that proceeds from concept to production to operation.
Responsible for departmental operations planning/execution or is focused on execution of professional activities within a technical discipline. Functions with some autonomy but guided by established policies or review of end results.
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Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Owning and delivering, as individual contributor, Systems projects that requires integration of Key image chain components and achieve the best possible image quality within the defined design constraints of the product.
• Supporting issues from field and factory on Image quality issues
• Coordinating with system/product teams to understand subsystem impact on system clinical needs.
• Establishes product requirements (internal and external), defines components and sub systems making up the overall architecture. Defines and provides scope management.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a technical discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired technical expertise to execute policy/strategy.
• In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
• Uses some level of judgment and has ability to propose different solutions outside of set parameters but with guidance. Uses prior experience and on-the-job training to solve straightforward tasks. Has access to technical skills and analytic thinking required to solve problems. May use multiple internal sources outside of own team to arrive at decisions.
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor with proven interpersonal skills. Provides informal guidance to new team members.

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’ s degree in Electrical engineering, Medical Electronics, Biomedical engineering, or Systems engineering Physics with over seven years' experience in a technical discipline
• PhD/master's in electrical/ Electronics/ Biomedical/ Medical Electronics/Systems engineering or Physics with over five years' experience in a technical discipline.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong working knowledge on signal/image processing and generation
• Strong understanding in functional characteristics and integration of hardware, firmware and software systems.  
• Proficient in Matlab/C/C++/Python coding for rapid prototyping
• Demonstrated ability to develop timely and effective solution for challenging design problems
• Demonstrated ability to make recommendations to technical and program leadership to improve product/process development
• Effective written and oral communication skills

Desired Characteristics:

• Knowledge on system modeling & model-based systems engineering
• Knowledge on CT image quality and image reconstruction
• Broad exposure to HW/FW/SW/Systems design, and technical depth in more than one engineering discipline.  

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