P&P Optica Job Board
Senior Software Developer
Description
About P&P Optica
PPO is using brand-new technology to transform an industry that affects everyone on the planet: the food industry. We apply a complex and highly sophisticated mix of hardware, software and huge datasets to improve both the safety and quality of the food we eat.
We’re a truly diverse team in every sense of the word, and our team is incredibly smart. Our culture is respectful and caring, and work-life balance is a real thing! PPO is a well-funded, scaling company with huge opportunities for career growth in every part of the organization.
If you’re looking for an opportunity to tackle challenging problems that affect everyone on the planet, PPO is the place for you.
What You’ll Get To Do
As a key member of the software team, you will be responsible for a range of projects focused on the software platform for our Smart Imaging Systems. Collecting, analyzing, and making decisions on millions of data points per second, our Linux-based software platform is the “brains” of our market-leading detection system.
From development of data-capture pipelines to image processing utilizing machine learning modules, you will use your platform background to ensure the overall stability and performance of our of system.
In this role you will:
- Design and develop software for complex, multi-instrument, smart imaging systems.
- Testing and deployment of new software releases
- Support for on-site system commissioning, data collection, and support
- Enhance and optimize tooling for the data collection and model development processes focused on reducing total time-to-market
- Develop tools for use across multiple environments including in house development servers, remotely deployed systems and AWS cloud infrastructure
- Work with Python-based machine-learning and chemometric algorithms for data analysis.
- Document the use, internals, and installation of software systems, for coworkers and customers.
Additional Tasks May Include
- Evaluation and integration of software development infrastructure.
- Software support for hardware and applications engineering groups.
- Work with external suppliers for hardware and software (e.g. cloud infrastructure).
- Support a range of physical and virtual servers running Windows and Linux.
- Involvement in network maintenance, security, redundancy planning and architecture for local and cloud applications, often with huge data sets.
You at PPO
You are a high-level thinker who wants to work in a fast-paced, growing company that is helping its customers to be more successful through the use of innovative products and solutions. You’re results-oriented and care about ensuring that our designs meet high standards of performance and quality. You have a positive attitude, care about doing things right, and are motivated by making a positive impact.
Skills and Experience
Software Experience:
- Solid experience with software development processes and tooling.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, distributed systems and other core software principles.
- Ability to architect, implement and prove out effective AI-based solutions for complex soft-real time data processing problems.
- Significant Linux experience is an asset.
- Industrial experience with Python - and coding best practices
- Knowledge of cloud computing ecosystems such as AWS, Azure or GCP (with a strong preference of AWS)
- Comfortable with both low-level embedded software and higher-level, whole-system abstractions.
Communication and Teamwork:
- Strong written and verbal communications skills with experience documenting software designs.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team with clear communication to all team members and management.
- Our office is located in Waterloo, ON and this role will require you to spend 2 days per week in the office to interact with our hardware and support production activities.
Bonus Skills and Experience
- Familiarity with C/C++ and hardware interfacing techniques.
- Experience with automation using microcontrollers and/or PLCs.
Why You’ll Love Working at PPO
- Open & Inclusive Culture – We celebrate diversity and collaboration.
- Work-Life Balance – Flexible schedules with dedicated flex days.
- Career Growth – Opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, data science, and imaging.
- Health Benefits – Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Social & Community Engagement – Join team socials, charity fundraisers, and happy hours.
P&P Optica is committed to supporting a culture of diversity across our organization. Our hiring practices align with human rights laws, guaranteeing every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of race, color, creed/religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.