Principal UI Engineer

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As a Principal UI Engineer, you will work with designers, scientists, and software engineers to enhance and extend Orion’s UI capabilities. You’ll tackle a range of challenges across scientific visualization, collaboration, data management, and new product and feature development. You’ll be part of a team building cutting edge features and helping to modernize existing software.

Open Eye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, an industry leader in computational molecular design, uses a scientific approach to deliver rapid, robust, and scalable software, toolkits, and technology & design services for pharmaceutical, biologics, agrochemicals, and flavors.

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The annual salary range for Massachusetts is $117,600 to $218,400. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.

Our benefits programs include paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

• Collaborate with designers, scientists, and software engineers to enhance and extend Orion’s UI capabilities.
• Address a variety of challenges across scientific visualization, collaboration, data management, and new product and feature development.
• Contribute to building cutting edge features and modernizing existing software.

• BS in computer science/engineering, biology/chemistry or similar with a minimum of 7 years of experience OR MS with a minimum of 5 years OR PhD with a minimum of 1 year of experience
• Experience designing, developing, troubleshooting and debugging complex user interfaces and software systems as part of a team
• Expert in JavaScript/Type Script/CSS/HTML
• Experience with Vue, Pinia/VueX and frameworks such as Nuxt.js / Next.js
• Experience in Life Sciences, HPC, Python, AWS, Web Workers, Web Assembly, and WebGL is a plus
• Experience with unit & end-to-end testing, CI/CD, source control, code reviews, and comfortable using command line interfaces
• Strong fundamentals in computer science (data structures, algorithms)
• Willingness to learn and explore new technologies with strong problem-solving skills

• Ability to collaborate with peers across development, science, design and customer success, often across time zones
• Take initiative to solve unexpected challenges during development
• Desire to expand knowledge in technical and scientific areas
• Operate with integrity while pushing to raise the bar

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