UI Software Engineer - WPF/.NET Desktop Applications - US-CO-Col Springs-Bldg C, United States
$110,740 - $184,570 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on designing and building the user interface for our real-time digital oscilloscope platform.
About the role
This role involves designing and building the user interface for our real-time digital oscilloscope platform, rendering high-speed waveform data, live measurements, and instrument controls on embedded Windows hardware.
What you'll do
- Design and implement WPF interfaces for real-time waveform display, including live trace rendering, persistence modes, and multi-channel overlays.
- Implement instrument-control UI: trigger configuration, timebase/voltage scaling, channel setup, cursors, and automated measurements.
- Design UI behavior for deep memory acquisition, waveform decimation/downsampling for display, and zoom/pan across captured records.
- Build touch- and knob/encoder-friendly interfaces for front-panel hardware controls alongside on-screen UI.
- Ensure UI stability and responsiveness during sustained real-time operation (hours/days of continuous capture).
- Implement MVVM architecture that cleanly separates acquisition data models from rendering and control logic.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of professional experience building WPF applications for desktop or embedded Windows environments.
- Strong proficiency in C# and .NET, with experience in performance-critical, real-time-adjacent UI code.
- Deep understanding of MVVM, data binding, dependency properties, and custom control/template development in XAML.
- Solid grasp of multithreading and producer/consumer patterns for handling continuous data acquisition feeds without blocking the UI thread.
- Strong debugging and profiling skills for latency, frame timing, and memory usage in long-running applications.
Nice to have
- Experience with user interface technologies such as QT or Avalonia.
- Experience with SciChart graphical software.
- Familiarity with oscilloscope concepts: triggering, sampling theory, FFT/spectral display.
- Familiarity with Windows IoT Enterprise or embedded Windows deployment for instrument-grade hardware.
- Exposure to industry-standard remote instrument control protocols (SCPI, VISA, LXI).
- Experience interfacing with embedded acquisition hardware (FPGA, ADC front-ends, or similar) via shared memory, DMA buffers, or custom drivers.
Skills: WPF GUI, C#, .NET, real-time waveform display, oscilloscope platform, embedded Windows
This role has been open 24 days — well below the 48-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
182
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Median days open
48 d
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Median salary
$143k
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| Metric | Keysight Technologies | All employers we track in this specialty (182 roles · 34 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 182 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 155 | 6119 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 74 d | 48 d (+26 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $143k |
Skills observed across this category: WPF GUI, C#, .NET, real-time waveform display, oscilloscope platform, embedded Windows
Who's hiring in this category
- KLA Corporation · 36 open roles · median 61 d
- Applied Materials · 31 open roles · median 24 d
- ASM International · 14 open roles · median 66 d
- Lam Research · 14 open roles · median 44 d
- Keysight Technologies (this employer) · 10 open roles · median 74 d
- Teradyne · 10 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 182 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 34 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.