Senior Instrument Software Engineer, Telemetry & Metrology

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madrona venture labsSan Carlos (CA)

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Nautilus in San Carlos, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II to join our team and help advance a single‑molecule proteomics platform. You will design software to orchestrate instrument hardware, monitor data quality, and verify optical and fluidic system performance, enabling reliable biological insights. You will collaborate with hardware engineers, bioinformaticians, and biology teams to translate customer needs into data quality standards, drive architecture decisions, mentor peers,

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