Sr. Staff, Instrument Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Staff Instrument Software Engineer, you will be an essential member of our engineering team. You ll help architect, design, and implement high-performance software to operate the electrochemical CMOS based DNA synthesis instrumentation we are developing. You will also help support the development of a new generation of electronic gene sequencing hardware. All the hardware tightly integrates with back-end web services and bioinformatics pipeline.

• Developing high-performance systems capable of handling very large data payloads while ensuring end-to-end data integrity.
• Help developing software running our highly custom DNA data storage platform
• Working closely with hardware, electrical and chemistry teams to help define requirements and specifications.
• Architecting and implementing using languages such as C, C++ or Rust.
• Bringing expertise in Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) to inform architectural decisions that meet strict timing and reliability requirements for hardware control.

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience in a Staff-level or equivalent senior technical leadership role.
• Expertise in broad set of languages such as C, C++, rust, typescript or python.
• Deep, demonstrable understanding of memory management and allocation strategies across multiple languages and runtimes.
• Proven ability to write performant, low-latency, and highly optimized code, particularly when dealing with very large data payloads (multi-gigabyte to terabyte scale).
• Experience designing and implementing firmware and working with high-speed buses (SPI, 1G/10G Ethernet, USB…).
• Knowledge of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and their implications on system architecture and design.

• Prior experience working directly with hardware development, bring-up, and troubleshooting.
• Front-end development (typescript, React or similar frameworks)
• Understanding of FPGA and ASIC integration
• Familiarity with data storage technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for data storage and deployment infrastructure.
• Bachelor s or master’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Mastery of object oriented programming concepts, and clean software architecture design
• Familiarity with hardware integration, system bring-up and validation
• Ability to take a hands-on approach to software and hardware development
• Image processing experience
• Experience with Git or similar version control systems

• Master s or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field
• Electrical and mechanical engineering experience is a big plus
• Experience with the latest .NET is a plus
• WPF experience is a big plus, and an eye for clean UI design is greatly appreciated
• Interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed