Job Description
Job Description
About the Role
Location: Providence, RI — on-site 1x per week, hybrid.
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take the reins on the software behind our genome-mapping platform — the technology researchers rely on to uncover the structural variants driving cancer and rare disease — and shape what it becomes next. You'll take responsibility for our existing LabVIEW-based instrument application — feature work, debugging, performance improvements — while also playing a lead role in architecting its next-generation, Python-based replacement. This is hands-on work: you'll be testing and debugging directly against physical lab hardware, not just in simulation, and pairing with AI coding tools to move faster than a small team normally could.
About the Company
We've grown from a small team into a ~90-person organization, backed by a well-capitalized global parent, and we're still small enough that engineers here own real, visible pieces of the product rather than a slice of a much bigger machine. We're a life sciences instrumentation company building the hardware and software behind a next-generation genome analysis platform — precision electronics, nanofluidics, and computational biology combined into a single instrument that gives researchers a level of insight into genome structure that older methods can't match.
Key Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and enhance our production LabVIEW instrument application — feature additions, debugging, performance and reliability improvements, and incremental refactoring
- Lead and contribute to building the next generation of that application on a modern, Python-based stack
- Write software design and requirements documentation, and help build out a more structured verification and testing strategy
- Write Python tools for data analysis and integration within the instrument software
- Collaborate directly with the internal scientists and researchers who use the platform to shape improvements and resolve issues
- Use AI-assisted coding tools as a core part of your day-to-day workflow
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally with a BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related science field
- Hands-on, production experience with LabVIEW — able to debug, extend, and refactor an existing production application, not just personal or one-off test scripts
- Strong Python skills and comfort with object-oriented design and large, distributed architectures
- Understanding of the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, and verification/validation
- Comfort working directly with physical lab instrumentation as a regular part of the job
- A pragmatic, collaborative communication style — this is a small, hands-on team, not a rigid corporate structure
- Nice to have: experience with AI coding assistants, SQL/SQLite, CI/CD tooling, quality-management-system environments (medical device, pharma, or defense), or communication protocols like Serial, TCP/IP, or CAN
What We Offer
- Up to $200,000 base salary
- Bonus potential and an equity stake
- Full benefits: health, dental, vision, 401(k) with 50% match up to 6% of base salary, unlimited vacation, life and disability insurance, paid parental leave
- The chance to modernize a real, revenue-generating instrument platform and see your work matter immediately, backed by a well-funded parent organization