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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** ALICE SERVICE
- **Location:** Nice, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, Ethernet, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), PCI Express, Low Latency, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-pulse-alice-bob-10760741

## About the Role

* 8+ years experience designing low level software stack, close to the hardware.
 * Superior engineering proficiency in Python
 * Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for hardware/software interaction loops - including real-time constraints, timing accuracy, and low-latency communication with control hardware.
 * Hands-on experience writing drivers or low-level interfaces for hardware instruments (e.g. via VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP, or custom protocols).
 * Solid understanding of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) fundamentals - sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation, and their application to waveform generation and acquisition.
 * Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
 * Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.
Nice to have :

 * Hands-on experience with automation systems (schedulers, workflow engines, configuration graphs, data pipelines).
 * Strong product mindset: ability to think about end-to-end delivery, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle.

 * Experience delivering a hardware-backed product (accelerators, HPC nodes, scientific instruments) to external users.

## Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust, high-performance software solutions at the core of our technology. Acting as a technical leader within the team, you will drive architectural decisions, champion engineering best practices, and mentor junior engineers to support their professional growth. You will be in charge of developing the low level of our stack, as close as possible to our hardware., * Design and maintain low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers for control electronics - including signal generators, AWGs, digitizers, and custom FPGA-based instruments.

 * Define clean hardware/software interfaces that decouple control electronics from higher-level experiment logic, enabling fast hardware iteration without breaking the software stack.
 * Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
 * Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
 * Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.