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# Senior Software Engineer - Equipment Controls at Seurat Technologies

- **Company:** Seurat Technologies
- **Location:** Wilmington, MA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$200k
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seurat/jobs/4707036005

## Job description

## About Seurat

Seurat is transforming manufacturing for people and our planet by delivering a scalable additive manufacturing solution to fundamentally change how products are made. Seurat’s proprietary Area Printing process, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL), allows metal components to be manufactured at price points and quality levels that compete directly with conventional manufacturing techniques, enabling the reshoring of supply chains and promoting the decarbonization of industry. Seurat has raised over $180M and is backed by leading venture partners like Capricorn, NVentures (NVIDIA), True Ventures, General Motors Ventures, Denso, Porsche SE, SIP global partners, Honda, Xerox Ventures/Myriad Venture Partners, Cubit Capital, Siemens Energy, and Maniv Mobility.

Job Description: Looking for a talented and self-motivated Senior Software Engineer to develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and extend machine-control software for novel electro-mechanical additive manufacturing systems. The ideal candidate has strong C++ and C# experience, is comfortable working close to hardware, and can debug complex real-time equipment behavior from software, controls, electrical, process, and operator-facing symptoms.

Job Duties:

- Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot real-time C++ machine-control software for complex control systems, including gas flow control, motion systems, timing and communication systems.
- Develop and maintain C#/.NET HMI, backend, configuration, setup-wizard, and diagnostics software for complex equipment operation.
- Integrate and debug industrial automation hardware including EtherCAT I/O, safety interfaces, PMAC/Delta Tau motion systems, PLC interactions, sensors, actuators, lasers, and related machine peripherals.
- Support machine bring-up, commissioning, production troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis using logs, database telemetry, diagnostics, simulator behavior, and direct machine testing.
- Work with controls, electrical, mechanical, process, optics, manufacturing, and field teams to turn machine behavior requirements into robust software and controls implementations.
- Improve fault handling, fail-safe behavior, operator messaging, configuration persistence, diagnostics, and recovery workflows for production equipment.
- Maintain and extend shared software libraries and deployment support for multiple machine projects.
- Document designs, handoff notes, test plans, commissioning procedures, and troubleshooting guidance for systems that must be maintained by a broader engineering team.
- Participate in code reviews, enforce practical testing discipline, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Skills/Qualifications:

Required:

- Object-oriented design and analysis (OOA/OOD) with demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous machine requirements into maintainable software designs.
- Strong professional experience with modern C++ in equipment, embedded, real-time, or other hardware-adjacent software environments.
- Strong professional experience with C#/.NET for HMI, tooling, configuration, diagnostics, or backend equipment software.
- Ability to independently debug complex software and machine behavior across C++, C#, real-time systems, industrial I/O, hardware interfaces, logs, and operator workflows.
- Working understanding of industrial automation concepts such as communication buses, sensors, actuators, motion, PLC/safety interaction, interlocks, fault handling, real-time constraints, and fail-safe behavior.
- Experience designing or maintaining GUI/HMI systems for complex control systems or production equipment.
- Comfort working directly with machines in a lab or factory environment, including bring-up, commissioning, issue reproduction, and validation testing.
- Experience with source control, issue tracking, code reviews, and practical test planning for software that interacts with hardware.
- Experience using AI tooling to effectively and safely assist in software development, such as Codex / Claude / Copilot.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills; must be able to work effectively across software, controls, electrical, mechanical, process, and manufacturing teams.

Strongly Desired:

- Experience with RTOS or real-time Windows extensions such as IntervalZero RTX, or comparable real-time control environments.
- Experience with EtherCAT, Beckhoff/TwinCAT, Siemens PLCs, Delta Tau/PMAC, Galil, ACS, or comparable motion/control platforms.
- Experience with gas/vacuum/chamber systems, inerting, O2 safety, purifier/filter systems, pressure control, valves, blowers, or similar process-control subsystems.
- Experience with laser systems, CNC equipment, additive manufacturing, semiconductor equipment, robotics, test equipment, or other complex electro-mechanical production tools.
- Experience with SQL-type database systems and query/debug workflows, including PostgreSQL.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, or similar tools to debug hardware/software interfaces.
- Background in mechatronics, electrical systems, controls engineering, or manufacturing equipment support.
- Python or other scripting experience for automation, diagnostics, test tooling, or data analysis.

Education/Experience:

Required:

- BS degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience developing software for industrial automation, equipment controls, embedded systems, real-time systems, robotics, motion systems, or similar hardware-integrated products.

Desired:

- MS degree preferred.
- 10+ years of relevant experience preferred for candidates near the top of the salary range.

Massachusetts Salary Range

Salary Range $140,000—$200,000 USD

Seurat Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values employees with a broad cross-cultural perspective. We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

## About Seurat Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Seurat Technologies is an American contract manufacturer that delivers high-volume, serial-production metal parts using its proprietary Area Printing® additive technology, enabling reshored, scalable production without customer CapEx.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $178.4M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: James DeMuth (co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Metal additive manufacturing / contract manufacturing
- **Target customers**: Large OEMs in aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial sectors needing high-volume, high-quality metal parts without owning printers
- **Mission/purpose**: To reshape how the world makes metal parts by unlocking unlimited scalability, enabling American supply chain resilience, and reducing carbon emissions (goal: up to 100M tons displaced by 2030)

## Products & Services
- **[Area Printing® Technology]**: Proprietary additive manufacturing process that decouples speed from resolution by using a high-power laser patterned into millions of pixels to print entire layers at once – 2× faster than incumbent Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) with full industrial quality.
- **[Contract Metal Manufacturing Service]**: Seurat prints finished metal parts for customers on its own machines, at its own facilities. No customer capital expenditure – parts are qualified via the APP (Advanced Production Program) and then ramped to serial production. Future plans include localized print depots globally.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $15M (estimated, 2025); Total Funding $178.4M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: True Ventures (led Seed & Series A), Capricorn Investment Group (led Series B); defense-aligned investors and top-tier venture firms are backing Seurat
- **Growth Signals**: Revenue estimated at $15M with 85 employees; company plans to expand team ten-fold in three years; 320+ patents/trademarks granted or pending; validating carbon displacement of up to 100M tons by 2030; 5 offices across the US and presence in Germany and UK.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary technology moat**: Area Printing® decouples speed and resolution – competitors cannot match throughput without sacrificing quality.
- **Distributed contract manufacturing model**: Seurat owns and operates printers, so customers get on-demand surge capacity with zero CapEx, eliminating single-source offshore dependencies.
- **Sustainability differentiator**: ISO 14064-validated carbon displacement projections; green manufacturing reduces energy demands and emissions compared to traditional methods.
- **Intellectual property**: 320+ patents and trademarks granted or pending.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale production capacity to achieve $25/kg part cost by 2030 (competing with conventional overseas manufacturing)
- Build localized print depots around the globe (first in Boston area)
- Continue to expand customer base in defense, aerospace, and energy sectors
- Grow workforce ten-fold over three years (engineering, operations, science roles)

## Why Work Here
- **Benefits**: 100% paid healthcare premiums for employees; competitive salary; generous PTO; reimbursed gym memberships; every employee is a shareholder (equity).
- **Culture**: Described as “a silly, highly intellectual group solving the toughest engineering problems” (Glassdoor, June 2024). Dog-friendly office; regular Taco Tuesday, Wings Wednesday, Pizza Friday; amazing holiday parties.
- **Work environment**: Based in Wilmington, MA (Boston area); hybrid/on-site engineering roles; strong focus on interdisciplinary teamwork.
- **Growth trajectory**: Company plans to grow team ten-fold in three years, offering career acceleration in a cutting-edge manufacturing startup.

## Sources
1. [Seurat.com – Homepage](https://www.seurat.com/)
2. [Seurat.com – Life at Seurat (Careers)](https://www.seurat.com/life-at-seurat)
3. [Seurat.com – Our Story/About](https://www.seurat.com/our-story)
4. [Greenhouse.io – Jobs at Seurat Technologies](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/seurat)
5. [LinkedIn – Seurat Technologies Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seurat-technologies)

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