Senior Instrument Software Architect — DNA Data Storage

Atlas Data Storage; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Data Storage is seeking a Senior Staff Instrument Software Engineer to join our core engineering team in South San Francisco. You will 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.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Proficiency in C# and/or C++.
• 6+ years industry experience.
• Mastery of object oriented programming concepts and clean software architecture.
• Familiarity with hardware integration, system bring-up and validation.

Responsibilities

• 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 RTOS to meet timing and reliability requirements for hardware control.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Memory management

High-performance software

RTOS experience

Git

Software architecture

Leadership / Staff-level

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's or PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Git

Job description

Atlas Data Storage is seeking a Senior Staff Instrument Software Engineer to join our core engineering team in South San Francisco. You will 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.