• Overall technical leadership and responsible for realization of full systems product release to ensure quality and compliance.
• Define the system imaging performance targets (spatial resolution, low‑contrast detectability, noise texture, CT number accuracy, temporal resolution) based on clinical use cases and regulatory benchmarks.
• Define the system‑level software architecture for CT scanners, including real‑time control, data acquisition, image reconstruction, post‑processing, and hospital integration (DICOM).
• Define failure handling and recovery strategies for software‑detectable faults (e.g., lost sync, DAS buffer overrun, communication timeouts).
· Translate clinical and product requirements into detailed software system specifications, interface contracts, and performance budgets (latency, throughput, uptime).
· Lead trade‑off analyses for software partitioning: on‑scanner vs. offline processing, CPU vs. GPU vs. FPGA, real‑time OS vs. general‑purpose OS.
· Develop and maintain physics‑based models of the imaging chain: X‑ray spectrum, detector response (including photon‑counting or integrating modes), scatter, beam hardening, and electronic noise.
• Establish objective and subjective image quality metrics (MTF, NPS, contrast‑to‑noise ratio, artifact severity scales) and standard operating procedures for system evaluation. Design and execute phantom‑based and cadaver/clinical studies to validate algorithm performance across patient sizes, anatomical regions, and scan protocols.
• Collaborate with clinical partners and radiologists to collect feedback and iteratively improve image appearance and diagnostic value.
· Perform system trade‑off analyses (dose vs. resolution, scan speed vs. image noise, slice thickness vs. artifacts) and document design rationales.
• Translation of user and business needs into product requirements.
• System decomposition and allocation of derived IQ related requirements to component level and related traceability.
• Trade-off of system design specifications and interfaces, determine feasibility of potential solutions, and leading technical & design reviews.
• Managing complexity of products or systems in multi-disciplinary setting, within scope of a single business.
• Leads and influences others and drives design for quality and is closely involved in the program of the applicable business.
• Makes a fundamental contribution to the innovation of products or processes.
• Solves fundamental problems on the basis of thorough (unique) knowledge in the professional field.
• Generates initiatives with regard to technological improvements, and performs future-oriented studies in dialogue with other specialists.
• Makes substantial contribution to the innovation process and communicates new insights to own business.
• Specialist in business and solves complex problems, where responsible for the overall concept at systems level.
Closely involved in policy preparation.
• SW/IQ defect management