Senior SWE

**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