Merge Labs
Software Engineer, Applications & Systems
$185K–$260K
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
About the job
Build experimental applications and workflows that connect instrument capabilities, data services, and researchers’ needs, while contributing across the software stack.
What you'll do
- Build interactive tools for configuring experiments, monitoring execution, visualizing results, and capturing metadata.
- Integrate instrument capabilities and connect application outputs to data services, including clear metadata and version information.
- Contribute across backend services, testing, developer tooling, deployment, and other systems; own changes through release and follow-up.
What they ask for
- Strong coding and debugging fundamentals, with examples of completed software that others used.
- Experience building applications, services, or tools.
- Comfort using APIs, writing tests, and collaborating through version control and code review.
Nice to have
- Scientific software, robotics, instrumentation, imaging, or lab automation experience.
- Python, C++, Rust, desktop applications, interactive visualization, asynchronous systems, data pipelines, offline deployment, or hardware integration.
Pay
$185K – $260K (base salary)
Tools
Python, C++, Rust
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