Merge Labs · 20 hours ago
Senior Application Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$225K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expMerge Labs is a frontier research lab focused on bridging biological and artificial intelligence to enhance human capabilities. The Senior Application Engineer will define and build core applications for scientists and clinicians, ensuring intuitive interfaces and efficient tools for laboratory workflows while collaborating with hardware and data engineering teams.
BiotechnologyHuman ResourcesSoftware
Responsibilities
Write software that allows scientists to create custom 3+1D treatment plans combining functional ultrasound imaging with targeted ultrasound-based neuromodulation
Incorporate ultrasound, microscopy, gantry, and other automation-related APIs into an integrated application that can be used to run both one-off experiments and high-throughput screens
Provide interactive interfaces for manual labeling of 3+1D data, and work with dedicated data engineers to ensure that the outputs from scientist labeling efforts are trivially accessible to our machine learning team(s)
Lead efforts to ensure a smooth online and offline user experience to allow external collaborators to perform analyses even in air-gapped clinical environments, while still retaining and synchronizing results safely once the device is back online
Own monitoring/observability efforts for both online and offline users of our core BCI application
Work with a talented infrastructure team to fully automate deployment of all applications, using CI/CD and best practices for desktop applications that must often be deployed in air-gapped environments
Define application APIs that make it possible for non-UI-experts to “self-service” simple scientist-facing UIs, and lead efforts to maintain a high quality standard among GUI applications written by other developers on the team
Qualification
Required
5–10+ years of experience building interactive interfaces for scientists, clinicians, or similar non-web-based users
Passion for creating safe, intuitive interfaces to enable diverse users to access novel BCI
Strong software fundamentals in Python, SQL, and experience deploying desktop applications
Proven ability to partner with non-technical users to understand needs and ship usable systems
Comfort owning systems end-to-end – from design and implementation to deployment and monitoring
Preferred
Background in computational biology, microscopy, ultrasound, or other scientific data systems
Company
Merge Labs
Merge Labs provides a single API to connect software applications with multiple third-party platforms.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$252MKey Investors
OpenAI
2026-01-15Seed· $252M
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