C++ Software Engineer - Image Processing

Touch Surgery ,
London, Greater London
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5 billion people, two-thirds of the worlds population, do not have access to safe and affordable surgical care. As a result, millions go untreated every year causing unnecessary suffering, permanent debilitation, or death. This is all caused by a shortage of surgeons, varying quality of care, rising costs of training surgeons, lack of funding and lack of accessibility to quality surgery. Digital Surgery is on a mission to change this. With our award-winning Touch Surgery application and web platform, it is the dawn of Digital Surgery. Digital Surgery has created a digital data-driven ecosystem that uses cutting-edge technologies like AI, augmented reality and computer vision to modernise surgical training, orchestrate surgical teams in the operating room (OR) and deliver safer surgery around the world. Our Innovation team is building devices to automate surgical understanding from raw video data. In order to impact surgery in the operating room were looking for a C++ Software Engineer to push us further than ever, faster than ever, and help surgeons with their real time decision making. Youll join a fast-paced, innovative, high tech environment, where youll focus on performance, using complex computational engineering to accelerate our Intraoperative applications. Heres what youll do (not all of it, just the important stuff!): * Design, implement, and optimise video processing pipelines running on computing systems deployed in the operating room. * Leverage hardware acceleration to develop high-performance, low-latency video processing, encoding, and streaming software. * Develop inter-process data transfer and synchronisation methods to communicate image data to multiple software subsystems, including real-time artificial intelligence processes. * Optimise our video processing pipelines by leveraging cutting edge artificial intelligence optimisation tools. * Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop robust and secure-by-design software fit for a medical-grade system. * Maintain a high level of quality and reliability in submitted code, and participate in team code reviews. * Provide support to ensure that the wider Engineering resources are operating at optimal performance and reliability levels Requirements * Master's degree in computer science, engineering the sciences or similar field * Excellent C++ development skills with C++11 or higher, multi-threading, inter-process communication and performance optimisation * Excellent knowledge of software design principles and C++ design patterns * Hands-on experience design low-latency, high-performance, real-time video or image processing software * Experience developing or implementing real-time computer vision and/or artificial intelligence algorithms using hardware acceleration * Extensive experience with parallel processing and hardware acceleration * Comfortable Python development skills * Experience of commercial software development and best practice * Ability to write clear, maintainable and well-documented code * Experience using and adapting to new technologies * Self motivated whilst possessing the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team Desired Experience: * Experience with gstreamer * Experience with CUDA or OpenCL * Experience with Pytorch/TensorFlow or similar library * Experience with TensorRT * Comfortable knowledge of Linux Benefits Were in a really lucky position to operate like a small team, with all of the benefits of a big company. Following our acquisition by Medtronic in February 2020, our benefits have had an impressive face lift. ; Our benefit package aims to help support your health, build wealth, grow in your career and share in the success of Digital Surgery and Medtronic. We are in the healthcare business and so in order to look after our people we provide: * Private healthcare via AXA PPP - 100 excess * 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays * Pension scheme (we double your personal contribution of up to 6%, by contributing 12%) * Annual bonus scheme * Annual meal allowance * Life insurance (4 x annual salary*) * Group Income Protection (67% of insured salary payable until pensionable age) * Personal Accident Cover ( 3 x annual salary) * Maternity - 20 weeks full pay + 15% returners bonus * Paternity - 2 weeks full pay * Employee Assistance Programme (support line for counselling, legal or financial advice) Not to mention all of the other bells and whistles such as free daily breakfast, employee recognition programs, cash for referring a friend and a whole host of other wellness benefits. As part of being Family Friendly, we encourage flexible working so you choose when you start and finish. Slack is one of our collaboration tools to help share information on what our teams are doing. You could even join the #coffee_buddies Slack channel to be matched up with someone for a face to face coffee. So whats it like working at Digital Surgery? Part of the Medtronic family we benefit from a small company feel, within the world'

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