Senior Software Engineer, Platform SDK / Instrument Control is open at Merge Labs in San Francisco Bay Area. The posting gives a salary of $185K - $260K. Posted on Aug 11, 2026, and still on Merge Labs’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 15, 2026.
About the role
As our Senior Software Engineer for Platform Instrument Control, you'll own the software that turns Merge's custom-built instruments into something other engineers—and ultimately scientists—can build robust protocols on top of by providing them with clean, coherent APIs. Our experimental platforms are all highly custom, and the first (screening) platform you would be helping democratize access to acquires…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Merge Labs’s careers page.
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