Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
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