Senior or Staff Software Engineer

Company: Capstan Medical
Location: Santa Cruz
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Senior Software Engineer (Staff considered depending upon experience)Reports to: Head of RoboticsWorkplace Type: Hybrid, onsite in Santa Cruz 3 or more days/weekOverview:We are building an exciting novel robotic platform where we are enabling the clinician to precisely control the transcatheter deployment of a valve through an elegant and simple to use robotic interface. Come be a part of envisioning and developing the software features that enable this!The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for translating clinical and user needs into design requirements and addressing those with practical software designs, implementing designs into testable prototypes, efficiently capturing design learnings for quick iteration loops, and bringing these features to product launch. (Staff expected to have a broader scope of feature ownership)Description:

• Translate clinical and user needs into design requirements. Develop software designs, implement designs into testable prototypes, and bring these features to product launch
• Develop real-time and/or non-real-time software, creating features and infrastructure that supports safe and effective procedures
• Align individual work to best support company goals. Identifying high-risk items and being part of developing solutions
• Be part of building a high-performance team, help build and maintain strong process and culture, in particular with the code review and release process. Increased expectation of mentorship for Staff.
• Contribute to determining software development timelines and execute to those timelines
• Document and communicate your work through design reviews and as appropriate released documents as part of the product development process
• Identify gaps and pitch in as needed to ensure that the team meets their goals and objectivesSkills:
  • C++ and Python programming skills, following software development best practices (unit testing, code review, etc.) and delivering production quality code
  • Strong debug skills and experience efficiently implementing new features with systems that interact closely with hardware and process real-time data
  • Software architecture for medical safety (or a similar safety-critical system), and associated formal documentation
  • Strong background in object-oriented design and programming, with the ability to create new designs or improve existing ones to ensure clear separation of concerns
  • Experience with low latency image and GUI integration a plus
  • Understanding of how early design decisions cascade into outcomes later. Ability to make smart decisions regarding clinical workflow, regulations, and risk management to save time and effort laterRequirements:
    • BS in software-related field, or equivalent work experience
    • For Senior: expecting 5+ years of relevant industry plus academia experience (medical device or similar safety critical system experience preferred)
    • For Staff: expecting 9+ years of relevant industry plus academia experience (medical device or similar safety critical system experience preferred)
    • Comfortable working with high levels of ambiguity and an ability to convert that into tangible outcomes
    • Experience with designing, testing, and shipping software for medical device capital equipment or similar safety critical systems
    • Experience with medical device development process, design control, risk management, design verification, and regulatory processes, or experience with similar safety critical system development processes
    • Ability to work in a hybrid work environment, working onsite in Santa Cruz on average 3 or more days a weekCapstan MedicalCreating a new standard for minimally invasive structural heart treatmentAt Capstan Medical, we're driven by an unwavering commitment to transforming the treatment of heart valve disease. By merging surgical robotics with catheter-based technology and next generation implants, we've pioneered a patient-optimized approach to repair and replace heart valves.Our innovative technology offers a significantly less invasive alternative to traditional open-heart surgery while ensuring precise and reliable placement of the heart valve implant. With these advancements, we may be able to provide patients with a solution to their heart valve disease while significantly reducing recovery time and minimizing the risk of complications. With a dedicated team of heart valve device experts and robotics engineers, we are fully committed to developing a comprehensive and transformative solution that will positively impact the lives of individuals affected by this condition.Capstan Medical is uniquely positioned in Santa Cruz. This gives us access to the amazing technical talent of the Bay Area, but in an environment that we feel is conducive to doing our best creative work. Our office is adjacent to large tracts of open space with bicycle trails straight from the office doors offering access to the hills and beaches of Wilder Ranch State Park for road/mountain bicycle riding, hiking, and surfing.Come join us and become part of a team revolutionizing heart valve treatment!
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