Engineering Manager, Scientific Software

Role overview

Compensation and benefits

• Salary is £70,000–£80,000, depending on experience.
• Benefits include death-in-service cover, private healthcare, a discretionary annual bonus scheme and an EMI share scheme.
• The role includes an annual salary review and work on semiconductor technology.

Team leadership and delivery

• Lead, mentor and develop scientific software engineers; coach through one-to-ones, appraisals, hiring and career development.
• Own software strategy and guide team practices, algorithms, application architecture and tooling.
• Plan, track and report progress with project leads, and integrate team work into wider programme plans.
• Manage technical debt and improve processes using Agile and Lean practices.

Technical work and collaboration

• Review code and support algorithm and architecture decisions while staying close to the data.
• Guide image processing, including flattening, feature recognition, masking, skew correction and height measurement, and statistical analysis of measurements.
• Ensure the application, RabbitMQ interface and visualisation run reliably in offline, on-premises fabs without cloud dependency.
• Collaborate with Software Project Lead, R&D, Systems Engineering, Product and Applications teams; manage external delivery partners.

What we're looking for

• Experience leading and developing technical teams, including appraisals, career development and recruitment.
• Strong hands-on software development background; image processing, computer vision or scientific data analysis experience is ideal.
• Strong industry Python skills; practical Agile and Lean experience; understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practice.
• Experience with external partners or suppliers and project management.
• Clear communication in English and a collaborative, pragmatic, self-motivated approach.
• At least five years' software development experience and at least five years' technical leadership or people management experience.

Desirable experience

• Experience developing software for 3D imaging or scientific data processing and visualisation is desirable.
• Metrology, microscopy, semiconductor or other complex engineering product background is desirable.
• Experience in another scientific or technical discipline, backed by strong software expertise, is desirable.