Sr. Software Engineer

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Position Summary

The Senior Software Engineer will contribute to the design, development and continuous improvement of PC-based instrument control software for Scientific Instrument like Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) products and Mass Spectrometry, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions that address customer and business needs. Working closely with cross-functional engineering teams, you will develop reliable and maintainable software that coordinates instrument subsystems, enables efficient product development and supports high-quality customer operation.

This position provides opportunities to participate throughout the product lifecycle, including concept evaluation, software development, system integration, verification, product enhancement and sustaining engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Instrument Control Software

• Design, develop and maintain PC-based instrument control software for SEM products.
• Develop software that coordinates instrument subsystems including electron optics, detector electronics, high-voltage electronics, stage motion, vacuum and peripheral devices.
• Implement software supporting instrument configuration, initialization, calibration, diagnostics and operational workflows.
• Develop software components that enable robust communication between PC software, embedded controllers and hardware devices

Software Platform Development

• Contribute to reusable software frameworks, common libraries and modular software components supporting scientific instrument development.
• Develop software interfaces for subsystem integration and device communication.
• Improve software maintainability, reliability and scalability through sound software engineering practices.
• Participate in software architecture discussions and technology evaluations within multidisciplinary engineering teams.

System Integration

• Collaborate with Electronics, Embedded Software, FPGA, Electron Optics, Mechanical Engineering and Systems Engineering teams during product development.
• Support software integration with hardware prototypes and engineering builds.
• Investigate software and system issues through debugging, testing and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Support software verification, validation and product release activities

Software Quality

• Develop well-structured, maintainable and testable software.
• Participate in code reviews, software documentation and continuous improvement activities.
• Contribute to software development processes, coding standards and engineering best practices.
• Support software maintenance and product enhancement throughout the product lifecycle

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• Typically 8+ years of experience developing PC software for scientific instruments, or Medical Device meeting 21CFR compliance.
• Strong proficiency in C# and object-oriented software design.
• Strong understanding of multithreaded software development and concurrent programming.
• Experience developing software that interfaces with hardware devices.
• Experience with communication technologies such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, Serial, USB, CAN or similar industrial communication protocols.
• Experience with software debugging, system integration and troubleshooting.
• Experience using version control systems such as Git.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills within cross-functional engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:

• Instrument control software for SEM, Mass Spectrometry, Chromatography, Spectroscopy or other scientific instrumentation.
• Detector control, data acquisition
• Hardware communication and device integration.
• Motion control software.
• Vacuum system control.
• Calibration, diagnostics and service software.
• Software frameworks for scientific instrumentation.
• Windows desktop application development.
• AI assisted programming.
• Product development, product enhancement and sustaining engineering.
• Experience collaborating within multidisciplinary engineering teams