Principal Instrumentation Software Engineer, Linux

Role Summary

Principal Instrumentation Software Engineer, Linux. Combine software engineering expertise, leadership and a strong understanding of scientific, medical or laboratory instrumentation to support and enhance internally developed laboratory equipment. Conceive, design, engineer, and implement software and technology solutions that solve significant engineering, scientific or business problems. The Instrumentation Software Engineer writes software to interface with hardware components and may act as a team leader, mentoring junior software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and maintain Linux and Windows based software solutions that improve the capabilities of internally developed laboratory instrumentation.
• Assist in the deployment and configuration of software applications in a biotech manufacturing environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver software solutions that meet business needs.
• Conduct software testing and validation to ensure quality, reliability and performance of applications; adhere to development practices including version control, coding standards, code review, and documentation.
• Demonstrate creative problem solving and champion new technologies to achieve project goals.
• Demonstrate mastery across technologies and platforms related to software design, programming languages, machine control, data integration, data analysis and visualization tools.
• May mentor/supervise a team and evaluate performance; accountable for effective performance of the team/individuals.
• Communicate effectively with executive leadership, peers and staff.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards including safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree with 8 years’ experience, Master’s Degree with 7 years’ experience; PhD with 3 years’ experience; 3 years’ experience developing software for laboratory, scientific, medical, or industrial equipment.
• Proficiency in Linux, including GNU C/C++ GTK application development and shell programming.
• Experience with device interfacing via RS232, 485, TCP/IP.
• Experience in image analysis and graphics libraries.
• Understanding of multi-threading, semaphores, mutual exclusion.
• Proficiency with XML and JSON messaging.
• Experience with Git and GitHub for source code version control.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies and Agile approaches.

Preferred

• Proficiency as Linux sysadmin.
• Experience integrating with Tecan, Hamilton, or similar commercial liquid handling robots.
• Proficiency in C#, .NET, Windows Forms and GUI programming in Visual Studio IDE.
• Proficiency in Python or Java programming languages.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience HALCON image analysis framework.