Senior Software Engineer in Test

Occam Labs is an engineering incubator targeting early-stage medical device design, with a handful of portfolio companies including Capstan Medical. We focus on cultivating cutting edge technology centered on patient value. Our team is highly collaborative and hands-on, takes pride in iterating quickly, and believes that the best ideas can come from anywhere or any person! We always have multiple programs in the pipeline, so as a small team, we tend to wear multiple hats on a daily basis.

Occam Labs is uniquely positioned in Santa Cruz, which we have chosen to be geographically close-to but intentionally separate from the greater SF Bay Area. 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 located in a repurposed warehouse space that used to be the Wrigley Gum factory, now the funky/diverse home to several bicycle companies, many art and architecture studios, a maker space, and several biotech startups.

It 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.

Currently, our active programs at Occam Labs target catheter-based, repair devices for diseases that affect the heart. Capstan Medical is focused on a robotic platform and associated portfolio of implants and delivery systems. These kinds of devices present patients with compelling, minimally invasive alternatives to traditional surgical methods. For most patients, this means less pain after surgery and being able to return to normal life much more quickly.

For many older patients, reducing surgical trauma can make the difference between life and death. Our current strength is in micro-scale mechanical medical devices on the cutting edge of medicine but we are constantly evolving. The team has a collective background designing a wide variety of medical devices including cardiac devices, catheter-based devices, collapsible implants, surgical tools and robotic systems.

Description:

• 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 ensure software reliability, safety, and performance by building robust test infrastructure and driving end-to-end verification in a fast-paced, hardware-integrated development environment.

• Leverage your software development expertise to architect and implement continuous integration infrastructure to increase the rate of product development and decrease formal software verification time.

• Create both manual and automated test protocols to cover software design requirements. Implement appropriate testing spanning from unit tests to hardware-in-the-loop system level functional tests.

• Lead software design verification testing activities in support of clinical submissions.

• Manage regression testing on new clinical software release candidates, working with quality and regulatory to optimize this process for speed and efficiency in order to enable iterative clinical testing.

• Work as part of a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team passionate about precision medicine and robotic innovation. Identify gaps and pitch in as needed to ensure that the team meets their goals and objectives.

Skills:

• C++ and Python programming skills, following software development best practices (unit testing, code review, etc.) and delivering production quality test code.

• Strong debugging skills with systems that interact closely with hardware and process real-time data. Ability to clearly identify and log defect into tickets with enough information to replicate and resolve the issue.

• Ability to write software requirements and test protocols for medical safety (or a similar safety critical system) and associated formal documentation.

• Background in test automation, with the ability to create or improve test frameworks for better coverage and maintainability.

• Experience in developing simulation…