Job Description
Principal Software Engineer
Advantest Test Solutions (ATS), located in Lake Forest, CA, is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer to join our team. ATS stands at the forefront of the semiconductor industry, offering cutting-edge, massively parallel test infrastructure (IaaS) that serves customers worldwide. This role provides a unique opportunity for engineers with a diverse skill set, offering challenging projects and rewarding outcomes.
Essential Duties Responsibilities:
- Possess in-depth expertise in the .NET ecosystem and proficiency in cross-platform development.
- Demonstrate the ability to engineer complex, high-performance software platforms (PaaS) tailored for on-premises deployment.
- Have extensive knowledge of distributed messaging systems, network protocols, and data engineering.
- Show a proven track record in creating robust cross-platform software infrastructure and systems, ensuring reliability and efficiency across diverse operating environments.
- Design, develop, and maintain software for the semiconductor and technology customer base, primarily for control and communication with mechatronic subsystems.
- Lead the modernization journey, including upgrading legacy software components.
- Actively code, design, document, and serve as a technical liaison for customers.
- Be willing to travel occasionally, including to international destinations.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Requirements, Education Skills:
- Required: B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field; M.S. preferred. Dual degrees in EE, ME advantageous.
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 7+ years with .NET and C#.
- Proficiency in Apache Pulsar, Microsoft Azure, C++, C#, Python, SQL, NOSQL, and .NET Eco-system (Preferred xUnit, Fluent Assertions, Blazor, Playwright, Mocks, TDD)
- Hands-on experience in developing and deploying On-Prem and Hybrid solutions.
- Specialized in cross-platform server and terminal development using OneImlx.Terminal framework across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
- Demonstrated ability in large-scale distributed messaging systems, optimization of engineering software data flows (telemetry data throughput, data engineering), and technical design/documentation.
- Experience in translating technical visions into implementable technical statements of work and developing solutions for both On-Prem and Hybrid setups.
- Prior experience with semiconductor testers is desired.
- Experience working with or developing SW IDEs for semiconductor test systems is a huge plus.
- Specific experience with ActivATE™ SW platform and / or Advantest 93000 SOC platform / IDE (SmarTest) is a plus.
- Strong knowledge in machine-machine communication, network setups, security, data transfer protocols, multi-threading, asynchronous programming, and network (TCP/IP, UDP, HTPP and gRPC)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally, sometimes at short notice. Travel 10% - 20%.
- This is an on-site role in our Lake Forest, CA office.
What We Do
For over a half-century, Advantest has been designing innovative electronic measuring equipment and semiconductor test systems essential to the development and manufacture of advanced computer and telecommunications products. On April 1, 2012, Advantest completed its integration of Verigy Ltd.
Additional Information about Advantest can be found at www.advantest.com.