Temporary Laboratory Software Technician

Job description

JOB TITLE: Temporary Laboratory Software Technician LOCATION: Worcester DEPARTMENT NAME: Biomedical Engineering - JM DIVISION NAME: Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY: This position will provide dedicated, proactive maintenance, ensuring that all internal tools are reliable, bug-free, and optimized for high-performance data collection. By providing efficient program maintenance, this position will directly minimize technical downtime and accelerate our overall research output. JOB DESCRIPTION: Main Responsibilities: Clinical Software Engineering & Maintenance Update and optimize custom clinical related software to ensure seamless integration with medical hardware and evolving research protocols. Debug and troubleshoot complex software issues to ensure "zero-downtime" during critical clinical data collection. Refactor legacy code to improve performance and maintain compatibility with modern medical imaging or data standards. Technical Documentation & Version Control: Systematically document all codebase changes and internal workflows to ensure the lab meets research audit and knowledge-transfer standards. Manage the code repository using Git, ensuring that...