Nuclera

Senior Software Engineer - Instrument

Nuclera  •  Cambridge, GB (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

Nuclera is a venture-backed, founder-driven biotech company headquartered in Cambridge, UK with significant operations in Boston, USA. Our purpose is to improve human health by making proteins accessible to life science researchers around the world.

In 2024, we launched eProtein Discovery™ - a breakthrough protein expression, characterization, and purification platform, consisting of cloud-based software and a lab-based instrument (with proprietary cartridges and consumables). Since then, we have established a growing installed base in North America, Europe and Asia, receiving numerous awards and customer accolades.

As a key player in a small engineering team, you will support the next stage of Nuclera’s growth through:

  • New Products - Contributing to development of a new product platform and its support tools.
  • Installed Base Support - Sustaining and being the internal expert and primary point of contact for manufacturing and field support issues relating to current generation Instrument.

Over time (6-12 months), your skills and responsibilities will broaden to include other software languages and technologies. This may also extend to electronics and PCB design.

About the role

Software Development

  • Full lifecycle development and release management for prototypes, products and support tools.

Project Management

  • Planning: Providing plans covering tasks, dependencies, effort, cost and resource allocation.
  • Risk Management: Supporting risk identification, evaluation and choice of risk response strategies.
  • Execution & Self-Monitoring: Progress according to agreed priorities and plans. Devise appropriate responses to problems and issues. Track and report own progress (deliverables, adherence to schedules, actual spend vs budget, etc.)

Quality Management

  • Progress according to agreed priorities and plans. Devise appropriate responses to problems and issues. Track and report own progress (deliverables, adherence to schedules, actual spend vs budget, etc.)

Requirements

Essential:

  • Bachelors’ Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or similar.
  • 5+ years of full lifecycle development for multi-technology products developed to rigorous standards. Life science equipment / medical device equipment experience desired.
  • Programming Languages: C for STM32 and Raspberry Pi Pico 2, python 3, Bash
  • Operating Systems / Frameworks: Embedded Linux / Yocto, Docker
  • Development Environment: Git / Gitlab / CI/CD, Jira
  • Software Quality: coding standards/static analysis, code/design review, testing - unit, integration, hardware-in-the-loop
  • Technologies: real-time control & monitoring (motion / mechanism functions & temperature control) embedded systems / electronics, LAN networking
  • Strong initiative, problem-solving, task prioritization, and end-to-end execution / completion.
  • Effective relationship management, cross-functional teamwork, clear documentation, and presentation skills.
  • Current UK driving licence. Willing and able to occasionally travel nationally / internationally on business as required.

Desirable:

  • Programming Languages: C for SAM 4S / SAM D20, Java, Javascript / React
  • Operating Systems / Frameworks: Torizon, PyQt 6, RTOS
  • Development Environment: VS Code, Claude AI
  • Software Quality: Software Architecture / UML, Design Controls, Stage-Gate Development, Problem solving (DMAIC, 8D)
  • Technologies: Microfluidics, Optics / Image Processing, Machine Learning / Neural Networks, Cybersecurity, PCB Design (Altium), GUI Design

Benefits

What we offer:

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a range of benefits including:

  • Company bonus scheme of 5%
  • Share option incentive scheme
  • Life insurance
  • Private medical insurance and cash plan
  • 25 days' annual leave + Bank Holidays
  • Enhanced employer's pension contributions
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity Leave
  • Investment in professional development and learning
  • Fresh fruit, tea, coffee, and snacks in the office
  • Organised summer events for staff
Nuclera

About Nuclera

Nuclera exists to remove uncertainty from protein science. As the pioneer of multiplex protein screening, we help researchers start with clarity, so ideas move faster to result. We believe access to your protein should be a certainty, not a gamble. eProtein Discovery™ is how we deliver on that promise, but our aim is bigger: to make protein access routine for every lab, accelerate breakthroughs in human health, and empower scientists to spend more time on discovery and less on delay.

Our eProtein Discovery™ system combines unique cell free expression systems, novel digital microfluidics, and robust screening data, to create an effortlessly multiplex protein screening solution that empowers you to perform your own protein screening, characterization, and small-scale expression in-house within days — even challenging membrane proteins

Founded in 2013 by PhD students at the University of Cambridge, the company now has a presence in Cambridge, UK and Boston, MA employing over 100 employees.

Industry
Biotech & Life Sciences
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Cambridge, GB
Year Founded
2013
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