
Lead Technical Support Engineer, DICOM
RapidAI
🇮🇳 India
Hybrid
Staff / Principal
12 months ago
- AI
- DICOM
- PACS
- Wireshark
- Tcpdump
- HL7
- AWS
- CloudWatch
- IaC
- Terraform
12 months ago
What you will do:
- Provide subject matter expertise in DICOM viewer technologies and standards.
- Lead the debugging, validation, and enhancement of features tied to DICOM tags, SOP classes, and modalities.
- Analyze and interpret DICOM file structures, including: o Tags (e.g., StudyInstanceUID, SOPInstanceUID, Modality) o Transfer syntaxes (Explicit/Implicit VR, Little/Big Endian) o Differentiation between image metadata and pixel data
- Utilize tools such as dcmdump, DCMTK, GDCM, RadiAnt, and 3D Slicer for advanced DICOM analysis and debugging. Oversee and troubleshoot DICOM network services including C-FIND, C-MOVE, C-STORE, and CECHO.
- Investigate and resolve issues such as DICOM timeouts, association rejections, and PACS misconfigurations.
- Use Wireshark and TCPDump to monitor and analyze DICOM and HL7 network traffic.
- Collaborate with engineering to evaluate, reproduce, and resolve viewer-related issues, including root cause analysis and validation of fixes.
- Provide insight into radiology workflows and ensure solutions align with user needs across imaging modalities.
- Work with support teams to ensure readiness for new module releases, including viewer updates, on both cloud and on-prem platforms.
- Embrace new technologies including AI-based troubleshooting, and contribute to internal tooling and training programs to scale support capabilities.
- Mentor and lead a team of specialists, fostering a customer-obsessed mindset and building a scalable, knowledge-driven support model.
What you will bring:
- 10+ years of experience working with PACS, DICOM, and radiology workflows.
- In-depth knowledge of DICOM standards, file structures, and transfer syntaxes.
- Proficient with DICOM viewers and diagnostic tools for file and network-level troubleshooting.
- Solid understanding of HL7, medical imaging systems, and radiology data flows.
- Experience debugging DICOM Query/Retrieve workflows and PACS integrations.
- Comfortable using packet capture and network tools such as Wireshark and TCPDump.
- Familiar with AWS, including CloudWatch, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
- Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide leadership across engineering, support, and product.
- 5+ years of experience mentoring and managing team members in a technical or support capacity.Â
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