The roleWe’re looking for a Senior Python Engineer, Platform Libraries (m/f/d) to join our team and play a key role in developing software that connects and translates lab equipment hardware interfaces, automates machines, and powers our next-generation automation platform.
As a core team member, you will be working on cutting-edge technology, building software that bridges the gap between software and hardware, enabling seamless integration across various vendors.
Connectors are how we do it.
Every instrument we bring online gets one, and every connector is built on our shared Python libraries: Bus, our Connector Development Kit, and the stack underneath them.
Our mission is to empower researchers and engineers by bridging the gap between lab equipment and cloud-based automation.
Our customers are solving critical challenges like curing diseases, developing sustainable materials, and addressing global food security.
We provide them with the tools to connect their devices, automate workflows, and unlock new possibilities in R&D.
Your mandate has two halves.
And stay close enough to customer connector work that what you build is grounded in problems that actually exist.
Why you'll love this roleYour users are engineers.
Your success lets other people ship connectors faster.
That's a different craft from shipping features, and it's the one we're hiring for.
Real hardware, real failure modes.
Instruments time out, return garbage, and arrive with documentation that's wrong.
You'll debug against physical devices in our Munich workshop.
Open source on purpose.
Our CDK and our standardization work (SiLA 2) are public.
What you build gets used and criticized by people outside the company.
Senior scope, small team.
You'll be the person who decides how connector engineering works here.
No layer between you and that decision.
Your mission1.
The Builder: own the shared librariesO.