Senior Software Architect – Robotic Procedure Automation

Job Description

Lead the architecture and technical direction for user-facing and system-facing software that enables robotic procedure automation, including clinical workflow, usability, hardware/software integration, and regulated medical-device delivery.

Role focus: Senior architecture ownership for RPA user interfaces and clinical/application software, with enough breadth to support multiple UI surfaces or related applications as the program evolves.

Your role

• You will serve as a Senior Software Architect for RPA user interface and clinical/application software, defining architecture, technical direction, and integration strategy across workflow, usability, and system behavior.
• You will guide the creation and realization of software architecture within the release train, supporting current and upcoming features while ensuring architecture and design decisions meet nonfunctional, quality, and regulatory expectations.
• You will lead design and development activities for RPA UI and clinical workflow software, including detailed design documentation, design reviews, code reviews, C++ implementation where applicable, and alignment of implementation work with the planned roadmap.
• You will lead integration and architecture efforts spanning clinical workflows, user interfaces, robotic systems, external interfaces, and deployed AI solutions.
• You will contribute to regulated medical-device software execution by supporting QMS adherence, IEC 62304 and ISO 13485 process expectations, design history file growth, requirements traceability, documentation quality, FMEA contribution, and verification planning.
• You will consult on product security and software security topics, including design implications for interfaces, logging, auditability, data handling, and secure system behavior where relevant to the UI and clinical/application architecture.
• You will collaborate with software engineers, verification, system engineering, product management, UX, cybersecurity, DevOps, external stakeholders, suppliers, and cross-site teams in Best and Cambridge to align architecture, plans, dependencies, and deliverables.
• You will provide senior technical mentorship, support technical decision-making, and help keep design, documentation, and workflow execution clear and simple for the team.

You are the right fit if

• You have 10+ years of experience in software architecture, software design and implementation in C++, systems integration, or regulated medical-device software development, preferably in healthcare, robotics, imaging, clinical workflow, or hardware-integrated systems.
• You can translate ambiguous clinical workflow, system integration, and product needs into clear software architecture, interface decisions, requirements, design documentation, and executable work packages.
• You are comfortable working at the product/platform level with a 6 to 12 month planning horizon, balancing short-term delivery with longer-term architecture quality and release-train readiness.
• You understand software development lifecycle practices, architecture governance, requirements management, technical documentation, software design, code reviews, stakeholder management, systems integration, and regulatory requirements.
• You have working knowledge of medical-device quality systems and standards such as Philips QMS, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, design controls, traceability, risk management, FMEA, and audit-ready documentation practices.
• You communicate clearly, simplify complex technical topics, and can influence across software, systems, UX, product, verification, security, and external partner teams.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or equivalent experience.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role based in Best, Netherlands, with collaboration across Philips teams and suppliers in the Netherlands, Cambridge, and the broader Image Guided Therapy organization. Some travel (appx 15%) is required for cross-site planning, supplier alignment, and integration activities.

We are a health technology company.