Software Engineer, Applications & Systems
Merge Labs12 hours ago
Base Salary
$185k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build applications and interactive tools for experiment configuration, execution monitoring, result visualization, and metadata capture.
- Integrate instrument capabilities and improve shared interfaces for applications and scripts in partnership with the SDK engineer.
- Separate reusable experiment logic from presentation code to support interactive and automated workflows.
- Implement failure handling, cancellation, recovery, logging, and testing.
- Connect application outputs to data services with clear metadata and version information.
- Contribute to backend services, data integration, developer tooling, CI, packaging, and other stack priorities.
- Diagnose issues beyond the UI and collaborate on performance, concurrency, native code, and hardware interface problems.
- Work with scientists and engineers to understand workflows, ship initial versions, and improve them through use.
- Own changes through review, release, documentation, and follow-up.
Requirements
- Strong coding and debugging fundamentals with examples of completed software that others used.
- Experience building applications, services, or tools and curiosity about adjacent system layers.
- Comfort using APIs, writing tests, version control, and code review.
- Practical approach to learning unfamiliar systems and asking for help early.
- Attention to clear user workflows, trustworthy data, and understandable failure behavior.
- Interest in broad startup responsibilities and concrete project ownership.
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About Merge Labs
Merge Labs is a privately held research lab developing high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces that integrate with advanced AI to augment human capability. It builds experimental platforms and automated pipelines across molecular engineering, synthetic biology, neuroscience, advanced microscopy, sequencing, and mammalian cell culture to accelerate BCI R&D. Founded in 2025, the company focuses on safe, accessible neurotechnology rather than commercial products today.