Software Engineering - Lab Automation and Software
Agilent Technologies18 hours ago
Shanghai, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop C#/.NET software for laboratory automation, instrument control, data acquisition, diagnostics, and workflow execution.
- Build communication and control logic for analytical instruments, automation controllers, robotic or sample-preparation devices, and connected laboratory systems.
- Develop backend capabilities including REST APIs, data services, background processing, configuration services, and system-integration interfaces.
- Apply asynchronous and concurrent processing to real-time instrument events, automated workflows, and long-running tasks.
- Develop scientific data features for spectrum and chromatogram access, data transformation, file parsing, reporting, and result preparation.
- Create WPF, WinForms, or related desktop components for monitoring, configuration, diagnostics, and operator workflows.
- Integrate AI-enabled features through APIs, service interfaces, tool execution, workflow triggers, and data-processing pipelines.
- Improve software reliability, observability, performance, error handling, logging, diagnostics, and maintainability.
- Contribute to technical design, code reviews, unit and integration testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and release readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in computer science, software engineering, automation, electronic engineering, instrumentation, analytical science, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 5 years of hands-on C# software development experience, including strong experience with .NET Framework and modern .NET versions.
- Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, design patterns, modular architecture, clean code, maintainability, and software engineering practices.
- Strong experience with asynchronous programming, multithreading, concurrency control, deadlock prevention, performance troubleshooting, and long-running task management.
- Experience developing desktop applications with WPF or WinForms.
- Experience building REST APIs, background services, data services, client-server communication, WebSocket or HTTP-based integrations, and related enterprise services.
- Experience with relational databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or SQLite, as well as database design, data access, query optimization, and Entity Framework or similar ORM frameworks.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues involving device communication, data acquisition, service integration, performance, reliability, and customer workflows.
- Experience in laboratory automation, analytical instrumentation, medical-device software, industrial automation, or scientific workflow applications is preferred.
- Preferred experience includes hardware APIs, SDKs, serial communication, TCP/IP, device drivers, command execution, diagnostics, scientific data workflows, AI-enabled integrations, Angular, Electron, CI/CD, automated testing, logging, monitoring, and deployment packaging.
- Ability to read technical documentation and participate in technical discussions in English; stronger English communication skills are a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time schedule with occasional travel and a day shift.
- No end date is specified for the position.
- Pay and benefit information varies by country and location, with specific pay ranges available from a recruiter during the hiring process.
- Equal opportunity employment is provided.
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About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies builds analytical instruments, lab software, diagnostic and genomics solutions, plus consumables and services used by pharmaceutical, chemical, environmental, and clinical labs. It sells systems such as chromatography and mass spectrometry platforms, pathology and molecular diagnostic kits, and supports lab operations through its CrossLab services business. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Agilent is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: A) with global manufacturing and R&D sites.