Staff Software Engineer, Valence
Alphatec Spine · Louisville, Colorado, United States · Posted Jul 9, 2026
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The Staff Software Engineer position will support software development for ATEC's surgical navigation and robotics platform. . They will have the responsibility and authority to develop and perform activities for software development to ensure ATEC’s cutting edge medical products meet our user's needs and our quality and reliability standards. This position requires application of technical expertise to independently determine and develop approaches to solve complex technical problems with ingenuity and creativity.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other software and test engineers. Designing, developing, testing, maintaining and documenting/validating software applications. Participate in all phases of product development as needed such as reviewing requirements, design, usability, risk assessment, and testing execution. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments. Interfacing with mechanical, electrical, systems, software and test engineers.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Technical leadership in development of intra-op spine navigation applications, including software architectural design, prioritization and planning of feature development, cross-functional collaboration to drive regulatory approval (510k), and contribution to future roadmap decisions
Design and implement high quality applications and frameworks targeting the Unix/Linux platform
Design and implement application software in C++
Perform integration and system level testing of software and software/hardware systems
Collaborate with marketing and cross-functional R&D teams to support evaluation, prioritization, and detailed definition of future product features
Develop documentation related to software development projects (design artifacts, test plans/cases, etc.)
Perform task estimation and develop software projects according to project plan
Manage multiple tasks/projects and priorities
Mentor the Junior resources and take the ownership of the end-to-end module delivery
Attend surgical cases, engage with surgeons, and maintain familiarity with current company endeavors across technical areas
Work closely with R&D and Marketing teams to support clinical prototyping, testing, and formal evaluation in cadaveric surgical lab settings
Ability to travel up to 15% of the time