Senior Windows Software Architect, Real-Time Instrumentation

Jobtailor; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Santa Barbara is seeking a senior software engineer to architect, implement, and deploy production software for automated scientific instruments and semiconductor metrology systems. You will build responsive Windows apps with C#, .NET, WPF, and modern C++/STL, and integrate with hardware subsystems including motion, vision, and data acquisition.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong OO design, and proven ability to deliver low-latency, real-time capable software within a

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

C# Application Development

Windows Application Development

Multithreaded Software Design

Software Integration with Hardware

Technical Leadership

API Design

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Data Acquisition Systems

Automation Equipment

Vision Systems

Job description

Jobtailor in Santa Barbara is seeking a senior software engineer to architect, implement, and deploy production software for automated scientific instruments and semiconductor metrology systems. You will build responsive Windows apps with C#, .NET, WPF, and modern C++/STL, and integrate with hardware subsystems including motion, vision, and data acquisition.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong OO design, and proven ability to deliver low-latency, real-time capable software within a