Software Engineer, X-ray Source Development
ZEISS Group2 days ago
Dublin, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$108k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and maintain software tools for manufacturing, engineering, and production-test automation.
- Develop automated data-acquisition solutions and scripts for processing production and engineering data.
- Organize, correlate, clean, and analyze product, test, reliability, calibration, and manufacturing datasets.
- Support X-ray source conditioning, calibration, characterization, final verification, and troubleshooting activities.
- Monitor test progress, document anomalies and test conditions, and support products through production-test sequences including Doghouse and Versa testing.
- Develop tools for reliability investigations and correlate component serial numbers with manufacturing history, operating hours, field information, and test results.
- Generate engineering datasets, plots, summaries, and statistical analysis outputs for technical decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve manufacturing efficiency, and increase production-data traceability and accessibility.
- Maintain documentation for software tools, analysis methods, test activities, and production status.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Programming experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages.
- Experience developing scripts, software tools, or automation applications.
- Understanding of debugging, testing, data structures, and structured problem-solving fundamentals.
- Ability to work with structured engineering or manufacturing datasets and troubleshoot problems involving software and hardware.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to document technical work and communicate results to engineering and manufacturing teams.
- Comfort working in a hands-on engineering, laboratory, or manufacturing environment.
- Preferred experience with manufacturing automation, automated test systems, engineering software, automated data acquisition, test-analysis tools, and large engineering datasets.
- Preferred familiarity with JMP or similar statistical or engineering analysis platforms, laboratory instrumentation, hardware/software interfaces, production traceability, reliability analysis, calibration, characterization, and final-test processes.
- Preferred experience supporting high-technology manufacturing or complex electromechanical products and collaborating with manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, test, quality, or reliability engineers.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental plans.
- 401(k) matching and retirement savings plan.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Vacation, sick pay, and paid time off.
- Performance bonus eligibility.
- Position located in Dublin, California.
Categories
Data Engineering
About ZEISS Group
ZEISS Group develops and sells optics and optoelectronics for semiconductor makers, manufacturers, clinicians, researchers, and consumers, spanning lithography systems, industrial metrology, medical devices, microscopes, and eyeglass and camera lenses. Founded in 1846 and headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany, the company is wholly owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. It operates globally and generates around €12 billion in annual revenue across segments including Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, and Consumer Markets.