Software Engineering - Lab Automation and Software (C#/.NET)

Location: Shanghai, China

Company

hirify.global develops customer-facing laboratory automation products connecting analytical instruments, workflows, scientific data, and AI-enabled capabilities.

What you will do

• Design and develop C#/.NET software for laboratory automation, instrument control, data acquisition, diagnostics, and workflow execution.
• Build communication and control logic for analytical instruments, automation controllers, robotic and sample preparation devices, and connected laboratory systems.
• Develop REST APIs, backend services, background processing, configuration services, and integration interfaces.
• Create WPF and WinForms components for monitoring, configuration, diagnostics, and operator workflows.
• Implement scientific data processing, including spectrum and chromatogram access, file parsing, data transformation, reporting, and result preparation.
• Integrate AI-enabled services and improve observability, performance, error handling, logging, diagnostics, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, automation, electronic engineering, instrumentation, analytical science, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of hands-on C# development experience with .NET Framework and modern .NET versions such as .NET 6 or .NET 8.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented design, design patterns, modular architecture, clean code, and software engineering practices.
• Experience with asynchronous programming, multithreading, concurrency control, deadlock prevention, performance troubleshooting, and long-running tasks.
• Experience with WPF or WinForms, REST APIs, background services, WebSocket or HTTP integrations, relational databases, and ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework.
• Ability to read technical documentation and participate in technical discussions in English.

Nice to have

• Experience in laboratory automation, analytical instrumentation, medical device software, industrial automation, or scientific workflow applications.
• Experience with hardware APIs, SDKs, serial communication, TCP/IP, device drivers, command execution, or diagnostics.
• Familiarity with TypeScript, Node, JavaScript, Python, Angular, Electron, AI Agent services, or scientific data workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, logging, monitoring, deployment packaging, or quality-sensitive product delivery.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time daytime schedule with occasional travel.
• Cross-functional collaboration with frontend, AI Agent, data science, product, test, application, and instrument teams.
• Work includes technical design, code reviews, unit and integration testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and release readiness.
• Compensation is determined by role, level, work location, skills, experience, and education or training.