Sr. Frontend Engineer

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The Senior Frontend Engineer leads the design and delivery of intuitive user interfaces for our precision instruments. You’ll translate UX requirements into high-quality, responsive screens, mentor junior UI developers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure front-end components integrate seamlessly with backend services and testing frameworks. Continuous improvement of UI practices and adherence to usability standards are essential.

• UI Architecture & Strategy: Define and maintain component libraries, style guidelines, and front-end patterns to ensure consistency across desktop and embedded platforms.
• Feature Development: Translate design mockups and wireframes into polished, performant UI components, ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and usability.
• Mentorship & Code Quality: Coach and review the work of UI developers; enforce front-end coding standards, conduct peer reviews, and promote best practices.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with System Architects, Backend and Firmware teams, and Test Engineers to validate data bindings, performance characteristics, and testability of UI modules.
• International
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner with the Design/UIX team at our Austrian HQ to incorporate their UX insights and ensure consistent, user-centered interfaces across all products.
• Testing & Validation Support: Define UI-specific test cases, assist in the creation of automated UI tests, and support manual verification of complex user flows.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Analyze UI performance metrics and user feedback; implement optimizations to improve load times, rendering speed, and overall user experience.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Produce clear UI design specifications, component usage guides, and style-guide documentation; share learnings in team forums.

The Senior Frontend Engineer typically needs a combination of education, training, and hands-on experience. This role requires the following:

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent years of experience
• 8+ years of professional experience in front-end development or UI engineering
• 5+ years of professional experience in .NET/C# development
• Experience with modern UI frameworks (e.g. Blazor or similar component-based technologies)
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git, SVN, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with responsive and/or adaptive design including touch screens or TouchGFX

Preferred skills include:

• Hands-on experience with WPF/XAML
• Hands-on experience with C++/Qt
• MS in Computer Science, or related field
• Proficiency with design tools such as Figma or Sketch
• Experience with UI test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent)
• Prior work in scientific instrumentation or precision measurement domains

The Senior Frontend Engineer uses a variety of technical skills, soft skills and industry knowledge to develop applications and systems, including:

• Accountability
  Takes responsibility for all work activities and personal actions
• Commitment
  Acts according to the principles, vision and values of the organization
• Communication
  Demonstrates the ability to clearly get a point across; writing, listening, and reading comprehension
• Dependability
  Shows up to work on time and is fully utilized; reliable when additional time is required
• Integrity
  Behaves ethically, is truthful and can be trusted
• Problem Solving
  Identifies issues, evaluates options, seeks guidance when needed
• Quality
  Maintains high quality standards and seeks improvements
• Teamwork
  Works effectively in inter-department and inter-company teams
• Technical Expertise
  Demonstrates depth of knowledge and applies technical skills
• Time Management
  Delivers results within given time frames; prioritizes effectively

This role is an independent contributor who is a member of multiple teams, and does not have any direct supervision of staff.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, observe, communicate and handle items…