Senior Software Engineer, Science
Company: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: September 14, 2023
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Job Description:
Founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a new kind of philanthropy that's
leveraging technology to help solve some of society's toughest
challenges - from eradicating disease, to improving education.
Across our core initiatives of Science and Education, we're pairing
engineering with grantmaking, impact investing, policy work, and
advocacy to progress in our mission of building an inclusive, just
and healthy future for everyone.
Our Values
We believe we can help build a future for everyone.
We aim to be daring, but humble: We look for bold ideas -
regardless of structure and stage - and help them scale by pairing
engineers with subject matter experts to build tools that
accelerate the pace of social progress.
We want to learn fast, but build for the long-term: We want to
iterate fast and help bring new solutions to the table, but we also
realize that important breakthroughs often take decades, or even
centuries.
Stay close to the real problems: We engage directly in the
communities we serve because no one understands our society's
challenges like those who live them every day.
Our success is dependent on building teams that include people from
different backgrounds and experiences who can challenge each
other's assumptions with fresh perspectives. To that end, we look
for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically
marginalized groups - women, people with disabilities, people of
color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and
second generation immigrants, veterans, and people from different
socioeconomic backgrounds.
CZI also supports multiple work options. Learn more about our
philosophy and approach here .
The Opportunity
In our Science Initiative, our mission is to support science and
technology that will help make it possible to cure, prevent, or
manage all diseases by the end of the century. Interdisciplinary
teams of physicians, biologists, computational scientists, and
engineers can expand our understanding of the human body and
illness - the very science behind medicine. CZI fosters
collaboration between scientists and engineers, develops tools and
technologies, and builds support for basic scientific research.
The Imaging Technology Team is focused on enabling researchers to
gain a much deeper mechanistic and quantitative understanding of
biological systems. We are growing an open source image
visualization and analysis ecosystem, built around napari and the
napari hub . We are also in the early stages of developing image
acquisition software to enable high-performance advanced
microscopes that need tight integration with image visualization
and analysis.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Imaging Technology Team, you
will build open source software to support this mission, working
closely with a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. You will
also collaborate with external partners, who are pushing the
boundaries of current microscopy hardware, and learn about imaging
technologies. This is a great opportunity for a Software Engineer
who wants to help speed up scientific research and enjoys solving
challenging problems.
You will
Build open source software to control microscope hardware and work
with high-speed streaming imaging data
Solve challenging data problems to enable near real-time
visualization and analysis of very large volumetric imaging
datasets
Develop real-time software for integrating cameras and other
devices critical for researchers developing cutting-edge
microscopes
Work in a multi-disciplinary team, with engineers, product
managers, applications scientists, data scientists, UX researchers
and designers, to define product plans and deliver on roadmaps
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers
You have
5+ years of demonstrated experience with C, C++ and Python
Experience with CUDA, CMake and Rust is a plus
Experience developing robotics software is a plus
Experience writing multi-process or multi-threaded software with
practical knowledge of how this software can fail
A solid understanding of data structure tradeoffs and can apply
performant algorithms to solve problems
Experience working with microscope instrumentation and control
preferred
Internal drive for continuous learning and teaching others
Experience working with open-source software development
methodologies is a plus
The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is $190,000 -
$285,000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of
the range, enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual
placement in range is based on job-related skills and experience,
as evaluated throughout the interview process. Pay ranges outside
Redwood City are adjusted based on cost of labor in each respective
geographical market. Your recruiter can share more about the
specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.
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