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Whether you work in Research & Development, Sales, HR or another supporting function, you will be part of a company that is truly transforming medical innovation into meaningful solutions and ultimately into healthier, better lives for our patients. That is why we are always looking to hire passionate, committed people, with the right technical backgrounds and business acumen, to deliver on our mission of improving the lives of our patients around the world.

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As a Senior Research Scientist / algorithm developer, you will be instrumental in paving the way for the development and advancement of key product performance algorithms, with a goal of enhancing current and future LivaNova products and driving features for new products. Creativity and methodology will need to be coupled with Passion and Vision. The execution of the development of algorithms will be key to your success. You will be the driving force through the full life cycle of algorithm development; working with Marketing, Clinical, and Systems engineers to understand and define user needs and algorithm system requirements; through the concept engineering process; to algorithm development and refinement, and finally to algorithm verification and validation.

LivaNova is a leader in the design, development, and commercialization of implantable medical devices. In our Houston offices we develop algorithms for our next generation epilepsy and sleep apnea treatment devices.

You will help develop the vision, strategy, product and clinical roadmaps, and plans necessary for algorithm development to further products pipeline of implantable and potentially, video and wearable monitoring technologies. You will do this by seeking to understand the unmet clinical needs, researching the literature to inform algorithm design, evaluating hardware performance to ensure device capability and working closing with various other R&D functions, Clinical Operations, and Marketing groups to ensure that the customer needs of each group are met. We are looking for you to bring creative, innovative, engineering solutions and methodologies to the various projects so as to meet our mission of meeting customer needs while minimizing customer impact. We will be looking for examples of demonstrated algorithm development success; a firm grasp of algorithm requirements development and analysis, concept engineering, modeling and simulation, sensitivity, and optimization. Lastly, a great attitude is key as you can expect a culture of teamwork at LivaNova.

To be ready for this type of opportunity you will have earned your Ph.D. and 2+ years of experience, or a MS (Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or another relevant engineering discipline) degree and 5+ years of experience. We are seeking passionate Research Scientists / algorithm developers with a strong track record of implementation and incorporation of algorithms in fielded products!

Other things that are critical factors in the success for this job will be:

• Advanced skills in MATLAB or Python.
• Advanced skills in image processing, machine learning or/and analog and digital signal processing
• Advanced skills in algorithm development and implementation.
• Experience with C/C++ programming languages
• Background in firmware implementation.
• Desired experience: openGL, openCL, GPU based coding.

With great responsibilities comes great reward, join us in our mission to bettering the quality of lives for people around the world!

Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

LivaNova values equality and celebrates diversity. We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent and free from unlawful discrimination.

Our selection process is driven by the key demands/requirements for the role rather than bias or discrimination on the basis of a candidate’s sex, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, non-job-related disability/handicap or medical condition, family status, sexual orientation, religion, color, ethnicity, race or any other legally protected classification.

Background Checks at LivaNova:

Upon successful completion of the hiring process an offer may be extended. Please note, LivaNova reserves the right to conduct background investigations and/or reference checks on all its potential employees, where permitted by local legislation. This offer therefore, is contingent upon a clearance of such a background investigation and/or reference check, and can be rescinded, where permitted by local legislation, based upon data received in the background check and/or refusal to cooperate with or any attempt to affect the results of this check. This process is not currently valid in Germany.

Notice to third party agencies:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

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