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This role is responsible for designing, developing, and coordinating framework-level capabilities including application architecture, UI composition, component integration, charting and plotting frameworks, performance, extensibility, reliability, and developer productivity. The successful candidate will serve as a senior individual contributor, collaborating with product, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver robust framework components and guide implementation within established architectural direction.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and develop reusable UI Framework and Application Framework capabilities for engineering desktop applications, ensuring scalability, maintainability, responsiveness, and extensibility.\nProvide technical leadership for application shell architecture, UI composition, command frameworks, docking/layout systems, state management, data binding, component integration, and framework service layers.\nDesign and guide implementation of charting and plotting components, including integration or customization of commercial charting libraries such as SciChart, Gigasoft, or equivalent technologies.\nLead framework design reviews, feasibility analysis, risk assessment, debugging, performance optimization, and implementation decisions in alignment with the product architecture.\nCollaborate with product management, architecture, QA, program management, and engineering teams to translate product workflow needs into reusable framework capabilities.\nGuide and mentor engineers on framework architecture, UI patterns, C++ and C# design practices, component ownership, testing strategy, and engineering best practices.\nContribute to technical roadmaps and communicate design tradeoffs, technical risks, progress, and implementation plans clearly to stakeholders and engineering leadership.\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering discipline.\nExperience\n10+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise desktop applications, preferably in engineering, CAD/CAE, scientific, visualization, or data-intensive software domains.\nStrong experience in UI Framework and Application Framework architecture, including reusable component design, application shell design, command frameworks, layout/docking systems, UI state management, and extensible framework services.\nStrong hands-on experience with C++ and C# in large-scale, production-quality desktop application development.\nExperience designing and implementing framework-level components that support multiple product workflows, teams, and application modules.\nExperience with charting, plotting, or data visualization components, including commercial libraries such as SciChart, Gigasoft, or equivalent charting technologies.\nStrong background in UI architecture patterns such as MVVM, MVC, MVP, data binding, event routing, command patterns, dependency injection, and modular application design.\nExperience diagnosing UI responsiveness issues, memory leaks, threading problems, rendering defects, framework integration issues, and performance bottlenecks in complex desktop applications.\nExperience with Windows desktop application development and cross-platform UI considerations.\nAvalonia experience is a significant plus, especially for modern cross-platform desktop UI development using C# and XAML-style UI patterns.\nPractical experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools to improve coding productivity, code review efficiency, documentation, and engineering workflows.\nTechnical Skills\nStrong proficiency in C++ and C# for framework-level desktop application development.\nRequired experience designing reusable UI Framework and Application Framework components, including application shell services, command systems, layout managers, docking frameworks, property grids, toolbars, menus, dialogs, view models, and shared UI infrastructure.\nHands-on experience with charting and plotting frameworks, including SciChart, Gigasoft, or comparable commercial/open-source charting components.\nStrong understanding of desktop UI patterns, asynchronous programming, threading models, event-driven architecture, data binding, rendering/update cycles, and responsive UI design.\nExperience with WPF, WinForms, Qt, Avalonia, or equivalent desktop UI frameworks; 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