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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Engineer IV - Windows Instrumentation and Automation - **Company:** Bruker - **Location:** Santa Barbara, CA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $107,100.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** .NET Framework, Microsoft Windows, Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Computer Vision, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++/CLI, Software as a Service, Persistent Data Structure, Software Debugging, Web Development, Hardware Design, Hardware Interface Design, Integrated Development Environments, Interoperability, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation, Object-Oriented Software Development, Pattern Recognition, Scrum Methodology, Software Tools, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Windows Desktop, Windows Software Trace Preprocessor, Data Processing, Multithreading, GitHub Copilot, Information Technology, Production Code, Codebase, Api Design, C++14, Code Restructuring - **Published:** September 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pj2562819d ## About the Role * 5+ years of professional software engineering experience developing complex production systems. * 3+ years of hands-on Windows application development using both C#/.NET/WPF and modern C++/STL. * Strong object-oriented design, API design, debugging, and refactoring skills in a substantial existing codebase. * Demonstrated experience designing and debugging multithreaded, asynchronous, and performance-sensitive Windows software. * Experience integrating software with hardware, instruments, robotics, automation equipment, or other physical systems with timing and reliability constraints. * Experience building interactive desktop user interfaces and the underlying application, data, and device-control layers. * Demonstrated architecture ownership and technical leadership across subsystem or product boundaries. * Meaningful, regular use of GitHub Copilot or comparable AI coding agents on production software. Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific examples spanning multiple development activities and how they ensure correctness and maintainability. * Ability to collaborate clearly with engineers and domain experts, communicate designs and risks, and lead technical work without direct authority. Education * MS or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field is strongly preferred. * A BS in a related field combined with significant relevant industry, instrumentation, or research experience will be considered., * Experience with C++/CLI, managed/native interoperability, or MFC in a production Windows codebase. * Experience with scientific instrumentation, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, metrology, robotics, machine vision, motion control, nano-positioning, or automated test equipment. * Experience using architectural layering across hardware interfaces, control logic, data processing, persistence, and desktop presentation layers. * Familiarity with signal or image processing, pattern recognition, numerical methods, or analysis of scientific data. * Domain knowledge of atomic force microscopy, optical spectroscopy, surface metrology, physics, chemistry, or microbiology. * Experience with Scrum or another Agile development approach and a record of improving practical engineering processes. * Experience making effective use of both VS Code and Visual Studio in a Windows development environment. Physical and Environmental Requirements * When working onsite, ability to lift and move equipment weighing up to 30 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation. * Ability and willingness to work periodically in a Class 1000 cleanroom using full gowning protocol and laboratory-appropriate attire. These requirements also apply to remote employees during onsite visits. ## Description Join the team building software for the world's most capable automated atomic force microscopes used in leading semiconductor fabs. Our software operates precision hardware, turns complex measurements into reliable results, and gives scientists and engineers intuitive control over sophisticated instruments., We are seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to own architecture and implementation across Windows desktop applications, real-time and non-real-time instrument workflows, hardware integration, automation, data acquisition, processing, persistence, and interactive visualization. You will provide technical leadership without stepping away from production code. This is a Windows desktop, scientific instrumentation, and hardware-control position. It is not a web, mobile, or cloud application development role. Candidates whose experience is primarily web application development 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 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. Responsibilities * Architect, design, implement, debug, test, and deploy production software for automated scientific instruments and semiconductor metrology systems. * Develop responsive, multithreaded Windows applications using C#, .NET, WPF, and modern C++/STL. * Integrate desktop software with precision motion, nano-positioning, vision, data-acquisition, control, and automation subsystems. * Design low-latency software that coordinates real-time hardware behavior with non-real-time workflows, data persistence, and intuitive interactive controls. * Own architecture for new capabilities and guide their integration into a mature product codebase through sound interfaces, layering, refactoring, and incremental delivery. * Diagnose complex behavior across software and hardware boundaries; lead technical investigations, articulate options and risks, and drive issues to resolution. * Lead software integration and product deployments in partnership with applications, systems, hardware, test, and manufacturing engineering teams. * Remain deeply hands-on while providing technical direction and raising engineering quality across a small cross-functional team. * Use VS Code and AI coding agents as core engineering tools across the software development lifecycle while applying rigorous technical judgment to all generated work. ## Related Videos - [Getting to Know Your Legacy (System) with AI-Driven Software Archeology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1437-getting-to-know-your-legacy-system-with-ai-driven-software-archeology) - [Strange New Worlds: shaping the future of the digital age](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/677-strange-new-worlds-shaping-the-future-of-the-digital-age) - [Why your codebase lies to AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100281-why-your-codebase-lies-to-ai) - [More efficient software for more efficient microchips](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1164-more-efficient-software-for-more-efficient-microchips) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) - [Refactoring in the Age of AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100223-refactoring-in-the-age-of-ai) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs)