Embedded Software Engineer

Lace Lithography is seeking a skilled and motivated Embedded Engineer to join our Instrumentation team in Bergen. In this role, you will design and develop software that directly drives and interfaces with our advanced hardware platforms. You will play a key role in building reliable, high-performance embedded systems for controlling, monitoring, and automating laboratory and production instruments that are essential to our lithography technology.

This position is ideal for an engineer with strong expertise in embedded systems, hardware-software integration, and instrumentation control. You will work closely with physicists, hardware engineers, and other software developers to deliver robust, real-time solutions for interacting with complex hardware in precision environments.

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

• Embedded & Real-Time Software Development: Design, implement, and maintain embedded and control-level software for microcontrollers, instrument communication, and device orchestration.
  Hardware Interface Programming: Develop and maintain software modules for communication with hardware over UART, SPI, or Ethernet.
• Platform Extension: Enhance our internal instrumentation platform (LIP) with new device drivers, control logic, and capabilities for hardware control, data acquisition, and visualization.
• System Integration & Testing: Lead integration, validation, and debugging of hardware and software subsystems in lab and production environments.
• API & Driver Integration: Work with vendor-provided APIs, SDKs, and hardware drivers to integrate third-party devices into our systems.
• Instrumentation GUI Collaboration: Support development of calibration, diagnostics, and control interfaces.
• Technical Leadership: Share expertise with the team, mentor junior engineers, and help define best practices for embedded software development.
• Process Optimization: Improve development workflows, CI/CD practices, and design patterns for embedded applications.
  Collaboration & Documentation: Maintain clear documentation for system architecture, communication protocols, and embedded software modules.
• On-Site Deployment: Perform hands-on testing, debugging, and integration at our Bergen facilities with real hardware systems.

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in embedded software development.
• Strong proficiency in C or C++ for embedded and real-time systems, and experience with Python for hardware control scripts.
• Solid understanding of hardware communication protocols (UART, SPI, I²C, Ethernet).
• Experience with integrating and debugging hardware drivers and APIs.
• Proven track record building embedded platforms for instrumentation or automation.
• Strong problem-solving skills for diagnosing complex hardware/software interactions.
• Ability to design maintainable, scalable embedded codebases.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams.
• Comfortable working on-site with physical hardware in lab or production settings.
• Familiarity with Git or similar version control systems.
• Experience with signal acquisition systems, motion controllers, or precision positioning equipment.
  

…consists of amazing people who've 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 don't 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.