Medical imaging software
Engineers who build imaging pipelines, viewers, archives and the integrations around them, including DICOM-based systems.
Sector
MedTech and Medical Imaging Recruitment
Humand recruits the engineers and technical leaders who build medical technology: the software, imaging, algorithm, data and embedded-systems people inside medical-device, imaging and diagnostics businesses. We are a specialist technology recruitment agency based in Oxfordshire, recruiting for employers across Oxfordshire and the UK, and MedTech is one of the deep tech markets we were built for. Permanent, contract and retained leadership searches are three separate services.
We do not recruit clinical staff. No nurses, radiographers, sonographers, locum doctors or pharmaceutical sales: this page, and this practice, is about the engineering and technical leadership behind the product.
Part of Humand's specialist technology recruitment for employers and one of the markets in our deep tech recruitment practice.
The market
What makes MedTech hiring different
- 01
The product is regulated, so the engineering is too. Requirements, traceability, verification and risk management are part of the build rather than a step after it, and engineers who have shipped under that discipline work differently from those who have not.
- 02
Medical images and clinical data have their own standards. Software that stores, moves or interprets them — DICOM imaging and HL7 messaging, for example — needs people who have worked with them, and that experience is genuinely specialised.
- 03
Not every hire needs the domain. Much of a MedTech engineering team is strong software, cloud and data engineering, so we test whether each role really needs imaging or regulated-software experience before it goes into the brief.
Roles
The MedTech roles we recruit
The technical layer of medical devices, imaging and diagnostics.
Algorithms, AI and machine learning
Computer vision, signal and image processing, and machine-learning engineers working on imaging and clinical data, including the validation work a regulated product needs.
Regulated software engineering
Application, full-stack and Python engineers building software that sits inside a medical-device quality process, and the healthcare-integration specialists who connect it to clinical systems through standards such as HL7.
Cloud, platform and DevOps
AWS, platform, DevOps and site reliability engineers running systems that hold clinical and imaging data, where availability and auditability both matter.
Embedded, electronics and systems
Firmware, embedded software, electronics and systems engineers working on the device itself — the layer where an instrument becomes a manufacturable product.
Technical and product leadership
Heads of engineering, CTOs and technical product leaders for regulated products, run as a retained or exclusive leadership search where the role calls for it.
Approach
How we shape a MedTech search
Separate the domain from the core
We split the brief into the engineering every candidate needs and the imaging or regulated-software experience only some roles need, so the specialist requirement is asked for where the work depends on it rather than applied to every hire.
Map the market before advertising
As across our deep tech work, most of the people worth hiring are found by direct approach rather than by advertising, so we map who exists and approach them directly before relying on an advert.
Level the role honestly
Graduate, mid-level and senior hires carry different expectations of domain experience, and the salary follows the level. We set that out before the search starts, with salary benchmarking where it helps.
How we work
Permanent, contract and leadership search
Permanent recruitment
Headhunted searches for the engineers a regulated product team is built around.
Contract recruitment
Specialist contractors, with the IR35 position stated where it actually sits.
Technical Leadership Search
Retained or exclusive search for senior technical leadership, run as a defined package.
Related sectors
The disciplines behind a MedTech team
For employers
Before you hire
- Salary benchmarking — set the level and the package before the search, rather than after the first offer is declined.
- Contract or permanent? — how to decide for a technology role.
- In-house, agency or embedded recruitment — how to resource the hiring itself.
Questions
MedTech recruitment, answered
- What does Humand mean by MedTech recruitment?
- Recruiting the technical people who build medical technology: imaging and regulated software engineers, AI and data specialists, cloud and platform engineers, embedded and electronics engineers, and technical leaders in medical-device, imaging and diagnostics businesses. It is technology recruitment for a regulated market, not healthcare staffing.
- Do you recruit clinical, nursing or radiography staff?
- No. We do not recruit nurses, radiographers, sonographers, locum doctors or pharmaceutical sales people. If the role is clinical, a clinical staffing specialist is the right partner.
- Which MedTech and medical imaging roles do you recruit?
- Medical imaging software; algorithms, AI and machine learning on imaging and clinical data; regulated software engineering and healthcare integration; cloud, platform and DevOps; embedded, electronics and systems engineering; and technical and product leadership.
- Do candidates need medical-device or medical imaging experience?
- Not always. Many MedTech engineering roles are best served by strong software, data, cloud or embedded engineering, with imaging or regulated-software experience asked for only where the role genuinely depends on it. We help decide which roles do.
- Do you recruit permanent, contract and leadership roles in MedTech?
- Yes, and they are separate pieces of work. Permanent and contract recruitment each have their own service page, and senior technical leadership runs as a retained or exclusive search with a defined package.
- Where do you recruit?
- Humand is based in Oxfordshire and recruits for employers across Oxfordshire and the UK. Where a role is remote or hybrid, the arrangement that matters is the one the employer will actually accept.
Hiring for a MedTech or medical imaging team?
Send the brief, or book a call if the role is still being scoped. Either way you speak to a Humand consultant.