Senior Navigation Engineer (f/m/d)

You’re an important part of our future. Hopefully, we're also a part of yours! At B. Braun, we protect and improve the health of people worldwide. As a Corporate Start-Up based in Freiburg, Germany, B. Braun New Ventures takes a lead role in the digital transformation of healthcare. With a young and fast-growing team, we develop solutions to automate medical procedures across various business areas. Our goal is to augment caregivers’ eyes, hands and decision making with sensors, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Our cloud platform team is focused on creating corporate-wide solutions that will drive the next generation of B. Braun’s digital products and connected devices. The technologies and products we develop create new treatment possibilities, enable sharing of clinical experience, and result in better patient care.

Duties and responsabilities:

• You will develop a platform and associated software for digital surgery combining sensors, imaging and navigation
• Your initial focus will be including but not limited to the development of concepts and prototypes for new surgical applications
• Your will create well-structured and maintainable software components using state-of-the-art software design approaches
• You will work in a scrum team collaborating with other software developers as well as with software architects, robotics engineers, system engineers, UX engineers, quality engineers and product owners
• You will work in direct contact with surgical users and help to define technical and application requirements
• You are open to work on all phases of product development from early concepts to implementation and Verification and Validation activities
• You will comply with medical software standards and have the responsibility of developing, integrating, and validating your own software modules

Professional competencies:

• Ideally a PhD in medical image analysis or related disciplines
• Initial experience with navigation systems
• Experience with augmented reality or organ and instrument tracking in laparoscopy would be beneficial
• Good knowledge in machine learning and AI model training and inference
• Development Experience in C++ and Python
• Initial experience in requirements engineering would be beneficial
• Initial experience in contacts with clinical users would be beneficial
• Experience with real-time programming on Linux, ROS2 and/or distributed systems would be beneficial
• Technologies we currently use are C++, Python, Qt, OpenCV, ROS2, GTest/GMock, Git, Azure DevOps, Linux, and RT Linux - Experience in any of these technologies would be an advantage
• Working experience in a regulated field (medical, aerospace, automotive) would be desirable

Personal competencies:

• Hands-on doer and an interdisciplinary networker
• Innovation mindset with enthusiasm for high-tech medical products
• Fluent communication in English. It would be a plus if you have knowledge in German

Benefits:

• Flexible and family oriented working hours and hybrid working between office and home
• A brand-new modern office optimized for concentration and collaboration with an integrated high-tech simulation operating room and generous social areas and creativity zones
• High quality of life in one of Germany’s most attractive cities
• Subsidy for public transportation

B. Braun New Ventures GmbH | Haakon Schröder | +4916095704687