Principal Technology Development Engineer

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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.

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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.

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This role is responsible for exploring, evaluating, and developing advanced technologies for future Leica Microsystems medical and surgical products. The position drives early-stage innovation in areas such as medical imaging, fluorescence imaging, visualization systems, OCT sensing, AI applications, and other related technologies, and translates them into feasible solutions for next-generation products and product enhancements.

The key challenge of this role is to mature innovative technologies in a complex medical device environment while balancing technical performance, system integration, quality, regulatory requirements, manufacturability, and product needs. The position requires strong cross-functional collaboration and system-level problem solving to turn new concepts into practical, differentiated, and scalable solutions.

Responsibility

• Lead the exploration, evaluation, and development of advanced technologies for future Leica Microsystems medical and surgical products.
• Design, develop, and optimize advanced technologies and algorithms in medical imaging, fluorescence imaging, visualization devices, OCT sensing, AI applications, and other related surgical system technologies.
• Drive feasibility studies, proof-of-concept development, algorithm development, simulation, and prototype creation for next-generation medical systems and product enhancements.
• Develop test and measurement systems using deep expertise in optics, electronics, sensors, and data acquisition software.
• Establish innovative test methods, performance characterization approaches, and manufacturing concepts to support technology maturation and future product industrialization.
• Quantify system performance and subsystem interactions to support architecture decisions, design optimization, and technical trade-off analysis.
• Use MATLAB and other development tools to create, assess, and translate algorithm concepts into robust product-ready software solutions.
• Prepare clear and traceable technical documentation covering technology concepts, designs, experimental results, acceptance criteria, risks, and user needs.
• Define and execute verification and validation strategies to confirm that technologies and algorithms meet design and performance objectives.
• Ensure all solutions are developed in compliance with applicable quality, safety, regulatory, maintainability, and reliability standards.
• Identify technical risks early, develop mitigation plans, and lead resolution of complex system-level technical challenges.
• Support invention generation, patent disclosures, and technical differentiation for future product platforms.
• Provide technical support required to ensure successful OCT design transfer, including troubleshooting product issues, driving performance improvements, and offering expert support for existing products when needed.

Professional Experience

• Strong in advance technology development.
• Experience in medical device development, preferably imaging &visualization related systems.
• Proficient in MATLAB.
• Experience in C++/C#
• Minimum Technical Master's Degree in relevant field in OpticalEngineering, Physics.
• Having a PhD Degreein relevant field is considered an added advantage.