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<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 1">Engineering Manager, Scientific Software</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":150}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":150}">(Senior Data Analyst Manager)</span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="auto">Do you enjoy leading engineers who turn raw scientific data into software the rest of the business can rely on?</span></em><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Data Analysis team - so named for what the product delivers to customers, though the team itself is a software and algorithm engineering team - building the applications that turn raw atomic force microscope (AFM) scan data into the 3D measurements our customers depend on. This is a pivotal role combining hands-on technical leadership with people management - shaping our software strategy and driving delivery across a growing, cross-functional organisation. Our software runs inside semiconductor fabs and processes real 3D height-profile data captured at atomic scale, so this role suits someone who enjoys working at the forefront of technology on complex problems, scientific data, and software that must be robust, reliable, and trusted by customers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Reward and Benefits</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":300,"335559739":150}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">£70,000 – £80,000 (depending on experience)</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Death in service and private health care benefits, discretionary annual bonus scheme and a generous EMI Share scheme</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Annual salary review and the opportunity to work on genuinely innovative semiconductor technology</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">About the role</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":300,"335559739":150}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">You'll lead the team that builds our image-analysis application: consolidating multiple data streams from the microscope, flattening and correcting scan images, recognising scanned features and measuring their height, and running statistical analysis across large sets of measurements. Because the software runs inside a fab with no internet access, the team owns the full picture - there's no cloud service to lean on, so the algorithms, the application, and the visualisation all must hold up entirely on their own.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">Team Leadership & Delivery</span></span></em></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":200,"335559739":100}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Leading, mentoring and developing a team of scientific software engineers, enabling them to deliver high-quality, fault-tolerant software in a time-sensitive product environment</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Owning the team’s software strategy, and shaping how the team works and how our image-processing algorithms, application architecture and tooling evolve</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Coaching team members through 1:1s, appraisals, hiring and career development</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Working with project leads to plan, track and report progress, and integrating the team's work into wider programme plans</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Managing technical debt pragmatically, balancing delivery speed against long-term maintainability</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Improving engineering processes so the team can keep getting better, drawing on Agile and Lean practices</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">Technical Involvement</span></span></em></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":200,"335559739":100}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Staying hands-on technically where capacity allows - reviewing code, unblocking algorithm and architecture decisions, and staying close to the data</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="11" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Working closely with the R&D team to translate good image processing methodology into quality product. Guiding decisions on image-processing approaches (flattening, feature recognition and masking, skew correction, height measurement etc.) and on the statistical analysis of measurement data</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="12" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Ensuring the application, its communication interface (over RabbitMQ) and its data visualisation are engineered to run reliably in an offline, on-premises fab environment with no cloud dependency</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">Collaboration</span></span></em></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":200,"335559739":100}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="13" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Collaborating closely with the Software Project Lead and R&D, Systems Engineering, Product and Applications teams to keep priorities aligned</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="14" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Managing external partners where they support delivery</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<p><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">A note about AI: we're adopting agentic development with Claude, but our engineers retain full ownership and accountability of the code they ship - whether they wrote it or generated it. AI is a tool that amplifies engineering expertise, not a substitute for it.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Who we are looking for</span></span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":300,"335559739":150}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">To succeed as an Engineering Manager, Scientific Software, we do need you to bring:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="15" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience leading and developing technical teams, including appraisals, career development and recruitment</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="16" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">A strong, hands-on background in software development, ideally including image processing, computer vision or scientific data analysis</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="17" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong Python development skills with industry experience</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="18" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Practical experience using Agile and Lean methodologies</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="19" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Good understanding of the software development lifecycle and best practice</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="20" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience working with external partners or suppliers</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="21" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Project management experience</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="22" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Clear communication skills in English, and a collaborative, pragmatic, self-motivated approach</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="23" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">5+ years’ experience in software development, and 5+ years' experience in technical leadership or people management</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong><em><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 3">Nice to have</span></span></em></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":200,"335559739":100}"> </span></p>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="24" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience developing software for processing and visualising 3D imaging or scientific data</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="25" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Background in metrology, microscopy, semiconductors or other complex engineering products</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="26" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience from another scientific or technical discipline, backed by strong software experience</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="27" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience using AI-assisted or agentic coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to improve development speed and quality in a professional setting</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>A bit about us: </strong></p>
<p>Infinitesima is a privately owned company founded in 2001, as a spin-out of the University of Bristol, by CTO Professor Andrew Humphris. Our dynamic team of scientists and engineers is focussed on enabling the next generation of semiconductor devices through delivery of innovative products to customers around the world. </p>
<p>Our strength lies in the varied perspectives that come from different cultures, experiences, and identities. We believe that true innovation is fuelled by collaboration, locally and globally. We strive to foster an environment where everyone can contribute meaningfully and thrive. <strong>If you require adjustments to take part in the recruitment process, please let us know, we’ll do our best to support you.</strong></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":210,"335559739":210,"335559740":300}"><strong>Your recruitment journey:</strong></span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":210,"335559739":210,"335559740":300}"><strong>We will interview you: Monday to Friday UK Time 9am to 4.30pm and we'll be as flexible as we can with Global Scheduling</strong></span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335559738":210,"335559739":210,"335559740":300}"><strong>1st stage:</strong> (45 minute) Remote meeting to evaluate your experience and technical ability</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto"><strong>2nd stage:</strong> (2.5 hours) Face to face onsite evaluating technical, presentation and communication skills along with your ways of working and your opportunity to to know more about us</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">If you're not comfortable with eye contact, let us know at the start of your interview and if REMOTE, once we've said hello, feel free to turn your camera off until the end.</span></p>
<p>We dress casually so informal attire is absolutely fine for onsite interviews. We want you to feel comfortable when you meet us and if there's anything else we can do to support your journey, just let us know. </p>
<p><strong>A note on how we use AI:</strong><br>We use AI <em>only</em> to transcribe our interviews so we can focus fully on you instead of scribbling notes. The AI does <strong>not</strong> take part in any decision making at any stage. All hiring decisions are made by real humans based on the conversation we have with you.</p>
<p><strong>Location and working pattern:</strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We offer flexible, hybrid working from day one, where possible. During your first three months with us, we ask for 4 days per week on site here at Abingdon, with 1 day remote. After probation, this typically settles to around a 3:2 split between office and remote working.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":200}"> </span></p>
<p><em>Recruitment agencies: Infinitesima Ltd only works with approved agencies and does not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not submit candidate details in response to this advert or solicit any Infinitesima Ltd employees. Infinitesima Ltd is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.</em></p>
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