Senior Software Engineer

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP); Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision care

401(k) with match

Unlimited vacation

Life and disability insurance

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own and enhance the LabVIEW instrument application, while steering the next-generation Python-based replacement. You will work directly with scientists to shape features, performance improvements, and testing strategies, bridging hardware and software in a hands-on role.

You’ll test against real lab hardware, pair with AI coding tools, and contribute to a modern, distributed Python stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in instrumentation or lab software.
• Hands-on production experience with LabVIEW and Python.
• Experience with end-to-end SDLC: requirements, design, implementation, and verification/validation.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and enhance the LabVIEW instrument application with feature work, debugging, and performance improvements.
• Lead the next-generation Python-based replacement for the instrument software.
• Write software design and requirements documents and help build verification/testing strategy.
• Develop Python tools for data analysis and integration within the instrument software.
• Collaborate with scientists and researchers to shape improvements and resolve issues.
• Leverage AI-assisted coding tools in daily workflow.

Skills

5+ years

collaborative communication

Education

BS in Engineering/CS

Tools

LabVIEW

Python

CI/CD tooling

SQL/SQLite

Serial

TCP/IP

CAN

QMS environments

Job description

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.

Location: Providence, RI — on-site 1x per week, hybrid.

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