Santa Barbara, California, or fully remote. Remote employees must be able to collaborate effectively with a Santa Barbara-based team with no more than a three-hour time difference. Remote employees may be asked to travel to Santa Barbara up to two times per year.
Position Summary
Join the team building software for the world's most capable automated atomic force microscopes used in leading semiconductor fabs. Our systems generate rich scientific data at nanometer scales, and our software transforms that data into accurate, actionable measurements while coordinating sophisticated precision hardware.
We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, validation, and productization of algorithms for scientific data analysis. The role emphasizes signal and image processing, numerical analysis, and applied machine learning while remaining grounded in production Windows software, modern C++, C#/.NET/WPF, and instrument integration. You will own important technical decisions, guide cross-functional problem solving, and write production code that ships with our instruments.
This is a scientific algorithms, Windows desktop, and instrumentation software position. It is not a web, mobile, data-platform, or cloud application development role. Candidates whose experience is primarily web application development or cloud data engineering will not meet the core requirements.
Agentic software development is part of how our team engineers software, not an occasional productivity aid. We use GitHub Copilot Business with leading AI models throughout algorithm exploration, design, implementation, testing, debugging, refactoring, and review. The successful candidate will bring meaningful production experience with AI coding agents and will be expected to use and advance these workflows responsibly.