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About ViDA

ViDA is Varian's data and AI team behind the global fleet of linear accelerators (LINACs) used in cancer treatment. ViDA transforms telemetry, event logs, and operational data from machines in hospitals worldwide into actionable insight enabling predictive maintenance, fault analytics, performance monitoring, and AIassisted operations that directly support patient care.

About the role

As a Product Design Engineer within the ViDA team, you will serve as the product, UX, and frontend voice in a highly technical environment. You will take complex, datadense outputs-including AI model results, time series telemetry, fault streams, and fleet KPIs-and translate them into clear, trustworthy, and efficient user interfaces for clinical engineers, medical physicists, and service teams.

This is a handson, craftdriven role combining product design, UX, and frontend engineering. You will own experiences endtoend, from user research and interaction design through implementation and iteration, ensuring that ViDA's data applications meet the high standards required in a clinical, highstakes environment.

What you'll do (Job responsibilities)

As a Product Design Engineer, you will: Lead endtoend UX for ViDA's data applications and dashboards, including user research, information architecture, prototyping, visual design, and usability testing.

• Engage directly with users-clinical engineers, medical physicists, service teams, and internal stakeholders-to understand real workflows, constraints, vocabulary, and cognitive load.

• Translate complex telemetry streams and AI model outputs into interfaces that prioritise clarity, density management, and rapid decisionmaking.

• Apply strong informationdesign principles to data visualisation, including chart selection, hierarchy, colour usage, annotations, accessibility, and thoughtful handling of empty, error, and loading states.

• Design and build production frontend applications using modern web technologies such as React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and component libraries (e.g., shadcn/ui), moving fluidly between design tools and code.

• Design BI dashboards with the same UX rigour and product mindset applied to custom web applications.

• Own and evolve ViDA's design system and shared component library to ensure consistency and scalability across data products.

• Partner closely with data scientists, AI engineers, and analytics engineers to turn raw use cases into shipped, adopted products (not prototypes).

• Own a meaningful portion of the application lifecycle, including scoping, design, implementation, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement.

• Leverage AIassisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, v0) where appropriate, applying judgement to maximise quality and productivity.

• Mobile app knowledge (required): contribute to mobile app UX and/or mobilefirst workflows (e.g., field/service experiences), bringing strong understanding of mobile interaction patterns and constraints.

What you bring (Essential skills)

We recognise experience can be gained in many ways. If you meet some, but not all, of the criteria listed, we still encourage you to apply.

We're looking for evidence of strong craft, sound judgement, and the ability to take ideas from discovery to production.

• Experience building datafacing or productfacing web applications, with UX as a core responsibility.

• A portfolio demonstrating shipped, realworld interfaces with clear design rationale and decisionmaking.

• Strong frontend engineering skills with React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and modern component libraries.

• Handson experience with UX practices, including user interviews, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative design.

• Strong judgement in information design and data visualisation, including chart selection, hierarchy, colour systems, and accessibility considerations.

• Comfort working with SQL and querying data warehouses or lakehouses to understand and validate the data being presented.

• Experience with AIassisted development workflows and an understanding of when to rely on automation versus manual control.

• Familiarity with modern application lifecycles, including CI/CD, deployment, and observability.

• Mobile app knowledge: experience designing, improving, or contributing to mobile applications and/or mobilefirst UX patterns (iOS/Android or crossplatform), ideally in operational or field contexts.

Nice to have (Desired skills)

• Experience designing for expert users in highstakes, datadense environments (e.g., healthcare, medical devices, industrial monitoring, observability platforms).

• Accessibility expertise, including WCAG standards, keyboard navigation, and colourblindsafe visualisation design.

• Experience building or maintaining design systems, component libraries, and documentation.

• Advanced data visualisation experience beyond standard charting libraries (e.g., D3, ECharts, Plotly, Observable Plot).

• Familiarity with Python and lightweight backend frameworks (e.g., FastAPI).

• Exposure to Azure and Databricks / Delta Lake.

• Experience or interest in regulated industries such as medical devices, healthcare, or pharmaceuticals.

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We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe diverse teams drive better outcomes, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive and contribute authentically. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know-we're here to support you.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual's potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world's most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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