# Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition and Instrument Integration

DECTRIS is a successful and expanding high-tech company that develops and produces X-ray and electron detectors. Our detectors are used worldwide in large-scale research facilities and in industry. Their unique properties enable scientific breakthroughs in life sciences and material sciences. Our more than 170 employees are located in Switzerland, the United States and Japan. At DECTRIS, we combine innovation and development with agile industry practices. As a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute and by focusing on the needs of our customers, we are able to combine scientific excellence with qualified service and industrial know-how. Our scientists as well as our technical and commercial experts ensure that our customers benefit from the latest technologies. Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition and Instrument Integration Your Tasks Design and build a new generation of C++23 backend services that orchestrate the full detector acquisition lifecycle (configuration, arming, triggering, streaming, teardown). You'll analyse an existing product to define the architecture, deciding what to carry forward, what to redesign, and where the service boundaries lie, and owning the resul

- **Id**: 4069153
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dectris-senior-software-engineer-data-acquisition-and-instrument-integration>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Austria
- **Countries**: AT
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T12:50:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T00:02:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5055
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- **Benefits**: Company events, Flexible schedule, Home office, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Laboratory Equipment, Machine Vision & 3D Cameras

## Company

- **Id**: 54326
- **Name**: DECTRIS
- **Domain**: dectris.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/dectris>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Umantis

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Protobuf** — Optional: no
- **PyBind11** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Tauri** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Cython** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: German; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Japan** — Iso: JP; Kind: country
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:50:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T02:12:54Z

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