Purpose/Objective:
• The Principal Engineer will be responsible for the design and development of next-generation histology product platform of Leica Biosystems. Responsibilities of the incumbent will include leading design, optimization, and innovation of the software platform architecture of the whole LBS products line. This position works intensely with global cross-functional team to meet/exceed business and quality objectives of Danaher Corporation.


Area of Responsibilities:
• Lead large-scale system and software architecture design of new histology products.
• Lead design and testing effort for full software development lifecycle with an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Shapes design methodologies and best practices.
• Collaborate with global teams to drive synergies across common platform.
• Work with cross-functional team to ensure medical product design meets the requirement for quality, manufacturing, cost, service, and regulation.
• Set technical direction not only for the team but will help guide engineering vision.
• Participate in the formulation of technical and innovation roadmap.
• Lead workflow/process creation and optimization impacting cross-functional team cooperation.
• Develop team’s technical competency following product/tech. roadmap.


Person Specification：
1. Skills / Competencies
• Excellent C/C++ programming skills; Proficient in more than one other programming language.
• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture with wealthy hands-on experience.
• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods.
• Extensive knowledge of medical system and hardware.
• Comprehensive knowledge of agile methodologies.
• Strong systematic thinking abilities.
• Effective organizational and leadership skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills in both Mandarin and English.
• Good presentation abilities.
• Good understanding industries and customer.
• Can organize systematic innovation.
• Can grasp development trend.
• Can organize department activity and event.
• Can resolve the conflict or problem involving multi-discipline team.

2. Functional knowledge
• Requires depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field.

3. Business expertise
• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services.

4. Leadership
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

5. Problem solving
• Leads others to solve complex problems of a limited scope; uses analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents.

6. Impact
• Leads others to solve complex problems of a limited scope; uses analytical thought to exercise judgement and identify innovative solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents.

7. Education
• Bachelor/Master’s in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Automation, or related field.

8. Experience
• 10+ years of solid embedded software development experience across multiple platforms and technologies.
• 5+ years of experience of software architecture design.
• Working experience in Medical Device is preferred

9. Travel
• As necessary

10. Language
• Native Chinese & Good English.