Lead Staff Software Engineer, Instrument Control

At Nautilus, we have a big and important mission: improve the health of millions by unleashing the potential of the proteome to accelerate drug development and enable a new world of precision and personalized medicine. We are developing a single-molecule protein analysis platform of unprecedented sensitivity, scale, and ease of use that we believe will democratize access to the proteome – one of the most dynamic and valuable sources of biological insight. To accomplish this, we are pursuing hard scientific problems with an entrepreneurial mindset and creating a world-class team of builders, innovators, and dreamers across a wide range of disciplines.    We are hiring for a Lead Staff Software Engineer, Instrument Control to join our growing team. The Instrument Control software team is responsible for designing, building, deploying, and supporting a variety of firmware & software systems that together orchestrate the movement of all hardware components within the Nautilus instrument in order to acquire data usable for decoding proteins within a biological sample. Additionally, the Instrument Control team works closely with multiple other scientific, software, product management, and customer support teams to ensure that the capabilities they deliver within the instrument meet the needs of our scientists, can be integrated seamlessly into the rest of the software infrastructure that supports the Nautilus platform, and will be supportable once we have deployed many such instruments around the world.The primary focus of this role is to provide strategic technical leadership for this specific aspect of our software strategy, direct people leadership/management support for the individuals that are currently working on this team, and hands-on technical contributions to all code bases comprising the Instrument Control project. Our novel technology is still in its formative stages, and therefore, your technical and leadership contributions will have a meaningful impact on both the team and the company on our path to the future.    This position will report to the Senior Director of Software Engineering and is located in either San Carlos, CA, San Diego, CA, or Seattle, WA. A minimum of three days in office, preferred. #LI-Onsite