illumina
Staff Software Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- US - California - San Diego, United States
- Work Regime
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Compensation
- United States of America is: $155,600 - $233,400. Should the level or location
- Posted
- 2026-08-12
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Medical
- Regulatory
Requirements
Extensive knowledge and experience with C/C++, Java or C#
Experience in multi-threading, and memory management techniques
Proficient with tools for software debugging and troubleshooting (GDB, etc.)
Proficient with tools for software performance analysis and optimization
Proficient with source control management repositories (such as GIT, SVN, etc.)
Extensive experience writing high quality unit tests against mock objects
Responsibilities
Define software architecture solutions for our high-performance signal processing pipelines
Design, develop, debug, and integrate C/C++ software on Linux for multi-threaded applications
Optimize and accelerate software executed on Illumina instruments
Closely interact with the bioinformatics team, instrument design team, test and quality teams
Collaborate in an agile environment to maintain high quality software against established processes
Maintain awareness of industry trends and evaluate applicability of new software and hardware technologies to platform development efforts