Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer at Cerca, you'll help build the software that controls and acquires data from our wearable OPM-MEG scanners. You'll work at the hardware-software interface in a multidisciplinary team, delivering production-quality software while contributing to a regulated development approach - DHF-ready documentation, risk management, usability considerations, and verification/validation evidence.

Key Role Focus Areas

• Design, develop and maintain software for our upcoming medical device, owning features from concept through release.
• Write clean, well-structured, well-documented code and support effective peer review.
• Collaborate with hardware and systems engineers to integrate software with our OPM-MEG systems (control, instrumentation, and data acquisition).
• Plan and execute verification & validation activities: develop tests, run them, analyse results, and produce objective evidence (plans/reports).
• Contribute to Design Controls / DHF artefacts: requirements, traceability, risk controls, release and configuration records.
• Support risk management by identifying software hazards/failure modes, implementing mitigations, and linking them to verification evidence.
• Support usability-related software aspects (safe workflows, clear error handling/messages) with testable outputs and appropriate documentation.
• Help create and maintain documentation aligned to medical device expectations (e.g., IEC 62304; ISO 13485 environment).
• Provide remote support to software deployed at customer sites, including issue triage and controlled fixes/releases.

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Professional software engineering experience delivering production-quality software (typically 3+ years, or equivalent).
• Strong fundamentals in design, debugging, maintainability, and testability. Programming experience in languages such as Object Pascal, Matlab, Python, LabVIEW, C, C++, C# (or similar).
• Comfortable collaborating across disciplines and communicating technical decisions clearly.

Desirable (Nice to Have)

• Experience in a start-up, R&D, or fast-paced product development environment.
• Experience with, or solid understanding of, medical device development and standards (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485), including DHF/design controls.
• Familiarity with risk-based development (hazards, mitigations, traceability to tests) and usability/human factors concepts as they relate to software.

What You Will Bring to Cerca

• Technical Skills: A solid foundation in software development, with an eagerness to learn and apply best practices for medical-device software.
• Ownership: You deliver not just code, but reliable, supportable software with the evidence to back it up.
• Quality mindset: You value testing, documentation and traceability as part of building safe systems.
• Collaboration: You work well with engineers, scientists and hardware specialists to solve real problems.
• Curiosity & pace: You enjoy learning, improving, and building something genuinely novel and impactful.