Staff Software Engineer: Industrial Automation & Lasers

IPG Photonics; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 107,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K with company match

Tuition assistance

Paid holidays

Vacation (3 weeks)

Sick time

Bonuses

Job summary

IPG Photonics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Materials Processing Systems Group in Minnesota. You will lead design and implementation of software for laser-based material processing equipment, mentor engineers, and coordinate work across software, electrical, mechanical, and applications teams.

Responsibilities include driving technical decisions, supporting integrations and commissioning, and ensuring software quality and maintainability in complex hardware systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading technically complex software features, subsystems, or projects and mentoring engineers.
• BSCE, BSCS, BSEE, or equivalent; MS preferred.
• Industrial automation, CNC, robotics, or manufacturing systems background.
• Proficiency in C#/.NET and software architecture for complex hardware-integrated systems.
• Experience integrating motion control, machine vision, and hardware with software.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, test, and maintain software features within machine control architectures.
• Serve as technical lead for projects, translating requirements into scalable designs.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through design reviews and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, controls, and applications engineers.
• Support software integration, testing, validation, and commissioning on production builds.
• Coordinate software deliverables from planning through machine acceptance.

Skills

C#/.NET

Industrial automation

Machine control

CNC

Machine vision

Multithreaded systems

Distributed systems

Software architecture

Motion control integration

Education

BSCE/BSCS/BSEE or equivalent

MS degree preferred

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

IPG Photonics is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Materials Processing Systems Group in Minnesota. You will lead design and implementation of software for laser-based material processing equipment, mentor engineers, and coordinate work across software, electrical, mechanical, and applications teams.

Responsibilities include driving technical decisions, supporting integrations and commissioning, and ensuring software quality and maintainability in complex hardware systems.