Senior Software Engineer - USA Remote

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. 

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Shape the Future with Us!

At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions.  With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.

The Senior Software Engineer is part of a team transforming surgeons’ experience from an analog world of visualizing surgical intervention to an information rich, digital experience. This digital experience will provide real time surgical insights aimed at improving surgeon workflow and patient outcomes. This fully remote position is part of the Leica Microsystems Research and Development organization developing real-time imaging platforms and clinical applications.  

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Apply deep knowledge of medical imaging workflows and experience with various healthcare interoperability standards, including DICOM,  HL7 FHIR, and IEEE 11073 Service-oriented Device Connectivity, to deliver features that seamlessly integrate surgical microscopes with hospital information systems.

• Ensure software solutions are implemented, documented, and tested, in accordance with the Leica Product Development Process, ensuring deliverables adequately meet quality, safety, regulatory, maintainability, and reliability standards.

• Participate in project definition phase establishing project risk profile and defining project deliverables and schedule. Participate as member of sprint team doing full stack software development and conducting peer code reviews according to team coding standards within a global software team.

The essential requirements of the job include

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in application development using C# and C++

• Detailed experience developing DICOM implementations, creating DICOM conformance statements, testing DICOM integrations and resolving interoperability issues of deployed systems in the hospital environment.

• Ability to communicate technical decisions to nontechnical and technical audiences and advocate for recommended solutions across a global team with primary collaborators in Singapore, Europe and United States

• Demonstrated ability to use AI-powered coding assistants (like GitHub Copilot and Cursor) to accelerate development, improve code quality, and automate repetitive tasks.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience with multiple of the tools, specialties, and protocols that our teams use:

• Process Tools - Azure DevOps Services; Git version control system; JAMA; JIRA; AWS Infrastructure tools for data collection, management, and model development; WiX Toolset and Windows installer technology; NuGet package management; Microsoft .NET Framework, Visual Studio Development Environment

• Specialties: Multi-threaded hardware device control; serial communications protocols; Frame Grabber Image Acquisition; GPU programming using CUDA; Targeting ARM &  X86 processing environments; User Interface design; Database engines – SQLite, MongoDB, DynamoDB; Moq Unit testing framework

• Protocols Experience: MQTT; ONNX Runtime; DICOM; HL7 FHIR; IEEE 11073; IHE

Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Leica Microsystems we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Leica Microsystems can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $128-143K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. 

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. #LI-Remote

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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