SimVascular Software Engineer and Architect

Stanford University School of Medicine’s Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab develops SimVascular and tools for patient-specific cardiovascular modeling and simulation. The Software Engineer and Architect will lead and contribute to solver architecture, development, testing, performance improvements, documentation, strategic planning, and mentoring to support future FDA submission and clinical translation.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and contributing to svMultiPhysics (svMP), the primary physics solver for the SimVascular project
• Overseeing svMP solver refactoring effort
• Planning code development – including testing, hardening, and architecture- to prepare the svMP software for future FDA submission
• Implementing quality control in code development
• Performing code profiling and improving efficiency
• Code improvements and refactoring of reduced order model solvers
• Overseeing and implementing automated testing implementation
• Implementing new GPU acceleration capabilities
• Reviewing and providing feedback on solver contributions from Marsden lab members and partner labs
• Overseeing and collaborating on web-based documentation development
• Participating in long term strategic planning with Dr. Marsden, the lab’s Senior Software Research Engineer and others in the national collaborative
• Mentoring staff, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars across collaborating labs on all aspects of svMP software development
• Other duties may also be assigned
• Propose, conceptualize, design, implement, and develop solutions for difficult and complex applications
• Contribute to all phases of a project, including systems analysis, program design, development, and implementation. Serve as project lead for some projects
• Oversee testing, debugging, change control, and documentation for major projects
• Lead and mentor professional staff, as necessary, working on all phases of application development projects
• Engage in long-term strategic planning.in collaboration with staff and project leadership
• Define complex application development administration and programming standards
• Oversee the support, maintenance, operation, and upgrades of applications
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems
• Review the physical design of existing systems for optimizing performance
• Lead projects, as necessary, for special systems and application development in areas of complex problems
• Work with other technical professionals to develop standards and implement best practices
• Provide innovative programming and analysis
• May mentor junior software developers

Requirements:

• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming with C++
• Experience with software development in the healthcare sector
• Experience with large scale physics-based solvers in a high-performance computing environment
• Experience with parallel computing (e.g. using MPI or similar), version control systems (GitHub), Agile software development (or similar), Python, AI-assisted software development (e.g. Claude)
• Bachelor's degree and eight years of relevant experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and programming tools
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying applications
• Strong understanding of data design, architecture, relational databases, and data modeling
• Thorough understanding of all aspects of software development life cycle and quality control practices
• Ability to define and solve logical problems for highly technical applications
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical clients
• Demonstrated experience leading activities on structured team development projects
• Ability to select, adapt, and effectively use a variety of programming methods
• Ability to recognize and recommend needed changes in user and/or operations procedures