Senior Software Engineer

About the job

Lace Lithography is developing revolutionary chip lithography technology to dramatically improve chip performance. We are seeking a motivated and talented Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform and Security team.

Lace Lithography is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to evolve the core components of our platform and security stack. In this role, you will design, build, and optimize the high-performance foundations that enable all our teams to deliver world-class lithography technology. You will also assist the team in ensuring that security standards are followed across the organisation.

You will collaborate with different teams to support a broad range of computational needs, and help in the design of specific distributed algorithms. Your work will also involve managing HPC workloads, enabling GPU acceleration, and ensuring the scalability, reliability, security and performance of our mission-critical systems used in research, development, and production.

Key Responsibilities

This list is not exhaustive; additional duties may be assigned as needed.

• Core Platform Development: Architect, implement, and maintain company-wide infrastructure for computation, simulations, data processing, and distributed workflows.
• Security and IT: You are going to be part of the security and platform team, and therefore you will be expected to perform security and it-specific tasks.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with multiple teams to integrate algorithms, tools, and workflows into the shared platform.
• Distributed Algorithm Design: Work alongside algorithm specialists to design and optimize distributed solutions tailored to domain-specific needs.
• High-Performance Computing: Build and optimize HPC pipelines for large-scale data processing and simulation workloads.
• GPU Acceleration: Develop and maintain GPU-based computation modules (CUDA, OpenCL, or similar) for performance-critical workloads.
• Infrastructure Reliability: Implement monitoring, diagnostics, and failover strategies to ensure continuous platform availability.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment pipelines to streamline workflows.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Maintain technical documentation and mentor other engineers in distributed, HPC, and GPU best practices.

Qualification

Required:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering with a focus on platform, infrastructure, distributed algorithms, or large scale simulation.
• Strong proficiency in Julia and C++ for high-performance applications.
• Expertise in distributed systems design and implementation.
• Hands-on experience with GPU programming (CUDA, OpenCL, or similar).
• Proficiency with parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP, or similar).
• Experience profiling and optimizing applications including both memory-bound and compute-bound workloads.
• Knowledge of security best practices, with the ability to contribute to security-related work across the company.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Singularity) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Slurm, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams.
• Experience with Git or other version control systems.

Preferred:

• Experience with large-scale non-linear optimization systems.
• Previous work in scientific computing or industrial R&D environments.

consists of amazing people whove joined us from all over the world, driven by intense curiosity, the urge for exploration, and a desire to push the limits of physics. We promise to offer you a place among highly motivated Lacers, present you with extremely difficult problems - and have a lot of fun solving them.

Lace operates out of two beautiful, vibrant, and strong-willed cities. Although we are cities apart, we strive to make the team feel as one.

We dont define values - but we have one universal expectation:

Be the best team player you can be.

Part of the team, part of the company

Competitive salary + equity through our incentive plan.

Wellness & Team Culture

600 annual wellness allowance, weekly team lunches, monthly social events, and an annual off-site with the whole team.

Personal Development

Quarterly development goals with your manager and your own budget to learn and grow.

Smooth onboarding, wherever you're coming from

We support relocation and immigration to make joining Lace as smooth and welcoming as possible.

Travel between Lace locations

We encourage cross-site collaboration and support travel between our York, Barcelona, and Bergen locations to stay connected and aligned.