Lead Software Engineer
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Are you a current Elekta employee
Please click here to apply through our internal career site Find Jobs Elekta.
Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives
We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.
We currently have the following opportunity available please contact us for more details!
We dont just build technology. We build hope for everyone dealing with cancer.
What youll do at Elekta
Are you passionate about developing cuttingedge software that makes a real positive impact in peoples lives Join our team and play a key role in developing the realtime embedded software that controls multiple axes in our radiation therapy devices to safely deliver radiation to patients.
As a Lead Software Engineer youll be involved in every stage of the development lifecyclerequirements design implementation and testingwhile leveraging your strong C skills to build secure modern and maintainable solutions. Youll be a part of a dynamic team of 15 engineers split into two agile Scrum teams where youll contribute to developing new product features for our Linear Accelerator machines and radiation therapy product portfolio. Youll work across a range of devices from fullfledged Linux systems to baremetal microcontrollers utilizing various communication protocols and design patterns.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Software implementation primarily in C including unit and integration tests
- Designing architecture and creating detailed documentation
- Reviewing code and software related artifacts
- Mentoring colleagues and sharing knowledge
- Staying updated on technical and clinical advancements in the field
- Understanding and adhering to the Elekta quality system introducing improvements to its effectiveness.
What you bring
We are looking for a proactive and collaborative software engineer with a cando attitude and a systemsthinking approach. Your ability to drive results collaborate effectively within a team and contribute to a supportive and fun work environment will be key to your success in this role.
We believe you should also have:
- A university degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Proven experience in software engineering within a product development organization.
- Strong C skills with a passion for writing clean safe and maintainable code.
- Solid understanding of software architecture for largescale projects.
- Professional proficiency in English.
- Experience in regulated industries such as medical technology is a plus.
Additional merits include experience with or strong interest in one or more of the following:
- Realtime systems
- Control theory e.g. servo control
- Fieldbus communication technologies (CAN EtherCAT)
- Board Support Package development (e.g. DMA UART USB Ethernet)
- ZeroMQ Protobuf
- Unit testing framework like Catch2
- CMake and build systems in general
- CI/CD integration
- Linux
- Yocto
- Development of test frameworks simulators and/or emulators.
Why should you join Elekta
In this role you will work for a higher purpose: hope for everyone dealing with cancer and for everyone regardless of where they are in the world to have access to the best cancer care. Additionally our benefit package includes:
- 30 paid vacation days/year additional 4 Elekta days off /year (plus bank holidays).
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Lunch Benefit.
- Contribution to wellness activities.
- Hybrid work option (you are required to work on location at least 3 days a week).
If you thrive in an environment where innovation teamwork and high standards come together to make a real impact wed love to hear from you!
Hiring process
We look forward to hearing from you! Please submit your application in English via the Apply button. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the deadline on the 23rd of March 2025.
For questions regarding the role or special assistance please contact the responsible TA Partner Maria Strelkova at Please note that we dont accept applications or provide individual application feedback via email.
We are an equal opportunity employer
We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic information national origin disability veteran status or any other status protected by law in the locations where Elekta operates.
About Elekta
As a leader in precision radiation therapy Elekta is committed to ensuring every patient has access to the best cancer care possible. Elekta is a proud innovator and supplier of equipment and software used to improve prolong and save the lives of people with cancer and brain disorders.
More than 6000 hospitals worldwide rely on Elekta technology. We openly collaborate with customers to advance sustainable outcomedriven and costefficient solutions to meet evolving patient needs improve lives and bring hope to everyone dealing with cancer. To us its personal and our global team of 4700 employees combine passion science and imagination to profoundly change cancer care. We dont just build technology we build hope.
Elekta is headquartered in Stockholm Sweden with presence in more than 120 markets and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. For more information about opportunities at Elekta please visit elekta/company/careers.
Employment Type
Full-Time
