Software Engineer - Controls

About Us

Neocis is an established start-up revolutionizing dentistry with Yomi, the first, and only FDA cleared robot for assisted dental surgery. The company collaborates closely with leading clinicians to develop innovative technologies that help advance patient care and improve quality of life. Based in Miami, Florida. Neocis is venture-backed with funding from several prominent investors.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll thrive in our innovative and collaborative environment
• Make an immediate impact on life-changing technology
• Avoid silos and “not my job” mentality in our smaller, fast paced, startup environment
• We offer sabbatical, parental leave and unlimited PTO policies
• Generous 401K plan with 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision.
  
  

The Role: The Software Engineer - Controls is responsible for creating the control software for Neocis’ real-time medical robot. The robot utilizes haptic guidance and augmented IK and tracking algorithms to guide and constrain the surgery, while implementing collision, singularity, and joint limit avoidance, on 6 and 7 DOF arms. Your control theory and algorithm expertise will be used to improve our haptic guidance, develop new surgical modalities and procedures, create utilities to calibrate and monitor and diagnose issues with the robot, and much more. You will work with other world-class software, hardware, electronics, and mechanical design engineers from the top engineering schools.

• What you’ll do:
• Create innovative solutions to meet our company’s technical needs
• Design, code, and debug new and existing robot control software
• Write well-designed, testable code and unit tests for that code
• Maintain, upgrade, and improve the performance of existing control software
• Perform design and code reviews of code developed by your peers
• Generate and execute test protocols and create test reports
• Investigate software-related complaints and make necessary adjustments to ensure optimal software performance
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 1 to 7 years of strong experience in object-oriented software design and implementation.
• Very strong C/C++ coding skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Experience writing device drivers and working with embedded systems
• Experience with signal conditioning and sensor fusion
• Understanding of advanced controller and filter designs
• Experience with documenting and testing software applications
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner
• Experience with machine learning preferred
• Experience with user interface design for software applications preferred
• Familiarity with computer graphics and core image visualization concepts preferred
• Familiarity with agile methodologies preferred
• Experience with medical device software preferred
• Familiarity with FDA regulations preferred
• Start-up experience preferred
  
  

What else?

• This is not a supervisory role
• This is a full-time position. This position occasionally requires long hours and weekend work.
• The position will require 5% travel in and out of state
• The main location of this role is in a medical devices manufacturing facility and requires:
• This position requires the regular use of the Yomi robot
• Prolonged periods working on a computer
• Ability to lift/push/carry items up to 20 pounds
• Frequent exposure to moderate noise common to an office environment
  
  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable candidates with disabilities to perform this role.

About Us

Neocis is an established start-up revolutionizing dentistry with Yomi, the first, and only FDA cleared robot for assisted dental surgery. The company collaborates closely with leading clinicians to develop innovative technologies that help advance patient care and improve quality of life. Based in Miami, Florida. Neocis is venture-backed with funding from several prominent investors.

What’s in it for you?

• You’ll thrive in our innovative and collaborative environment
• Make an immediate impact on life-changing technology
• Avoid silos and “not my job” mentality in our smaller, fast paced, startup environment
• We offer sabbatical, parental leave and unlimited PTO policies
• Generous 401K plan with 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision.
  
  

The Role: The Software Engineer - Controls is responsible for creating the control software for Neocis’ real-time medical robot. The robot utilizes haptic guidance and augmented IK and tracking algorithms to guide and constrain the surgery, while implementing collision, singularity, and joint limit avoidance, on 6 and 7 DOF arms. Your control theory and algorithm expertise will be used to improve our haptic guidance, develop new surgical modalities and procedures, create utilities to calibrate and monitor and diagnose issues with the robot, and much more. You will work with other world-class software, hardware, electronics, and mechanical design engineers from the top engineering schools.

• What you’ll do:
• Create innovative solutions to meet our company’s technical needs
• Design, code, and debug new and existing robot control software
• Write well-designed, testable code and unit tests for that code
• Maintain, upgrade, and improve the performance of existing control software
• Perform design and code reviews of code developed by your peers
• Generate and execute test protocols and create test reports
• Investigate software-related complaints and make necessary adjustments to ensure optimal software performance
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
• 1 to 7 years of strong experience in object-oriented software design and implementation.
• Very strong C/C++ coding skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Experience writing device drivers and working with embedded systems
• Experience with signal conditioning and sensor fusion
• Understanding of advanced controller and filter designs
• Experience with documenting and testing software applications
• Team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to manage uncertainty, push the limits, and think like an owner
• Experience with machine learning preferred
• Experience with user interface design for software applications preferred
• Familiarity with computer graphics and core image visualization concepts preferred
• Familiarity with agile methodologies preferred
• Experience with medical device software preferred
• Familiarity with FDA regulations preferred
• Start-up experience preferred
  
  

What else?

• This is not a supervisory role
• This is a full-time position. This position occasionally requires long hours and weekend work.
• The position will require 5% travel in and out of state
• The main location of this role is in a medical devices manufacturing facility and requires:
• This position requires the regular use of the Yomi robot
• Prolonged periods working on a computer
• Ability to lift/push/carry items up to 20 pounds
• Frequent exposure to moderate noise common to an office environment
  
  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable candidates with disabilities to perform this role.