Research Software (Web and Desktop) Engineer

Overview

Come help us research and develop state of the art instruments for drug discovery, testing and food safety! The Waters Global Research department is exploring next generation capabilities that will stretch your creative talents. Our aim is to enhance our customers’ user experience by building more intelligent liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instruments for pharmaceutical discovery and drug testing laboratories.

The current work focuses on simplifying the interface and useability of highly technical instruments used for drug discovery, so that non-experts can use them and achieve results. This requires building features that are highly intuitive, have built-in intelligence and produce results that are meaningful in the environment that the system is deployed into.

The role of this Software Engineer will be to develop applications that interface with data systems, to design and develop APIs that allow data and results to be exposed by those applications, and to update and modify instrument firmware and UI as required to achieve a level of simplicity suitable for the end user.

We seek someone with a growth mindset who is self-motivated, a problem solver, and someone energized by working at the nexus of leading-edge software and hardware development.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Build tools in C#.NET and C++ that control and extract data from instruments using C# and REST APIs.
• Maintain codebase: use OOP and/or FP best practices, write unit tests, etc.
• Create and update user interface solutions using Angular
• Work effectively with cross-functional project teams including scientists, developers, and engineers
• Communicate progress internally and externally

As a team member you will:

• Participate in all team meetings and ceremonies in direct collaboration with other sites, provide input and feedback, take ownership on identified improvements
• Actively participate in learning and sharing activities either during informal or formal training and demos
• Demonstrate continuous technical improvement

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in computer science or related field and at least 3 years relevant work experience, or equivalent. Position level commensurate with experience.
• Solid experience in building .NET applications.
• Proficiency in object-oriented or functional programming best practices.
• Comfortable with Git version control, as well as command prompt or powershell.
• Comfortable discovering and driving new capabilities, solutions, and programming best practices from blogs, white papers, and other technical documentation.
• You are fluent in English - speaking, reading, writing - Advanced Level 

Desired (considered a plus) Qualifications:

• Experience building applications for data science applications
• Experience with Python and Streamlit
• Experience with scientific data and algorithms development

In return;

You will receive competitive compensation, great benefits and continuous professional development.

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.