Principal Software Developer

Software Full Time Richmond, BC Hybrid $135,000 - $190,000 CAD per year Founded and based in Richmond, BC, Ideon Technologies uses the energy from supernova explosions in space to image deep beneath the Earth’s surface.

The world pioneer in cosmic ray muon tomography, Ideon has developed the REVEAL™ Subsurface Intelligence Platform™, comprising an advanced suite of proprietary data generation hardware, software, AI powered services, and multi physics fusion that provide x ray like visibility deep underground and unlock the exponential power of integrated spatial data.

By transforming muon data into reliable 3D density maps, Ideon helps geologists identify, map, characterize, and monitor mineral deposits with confidence.

This reduces risk and cost of traditional methods, while saving time, optimizing return, and minimizing environmental impact across the mining value chain.

In turn, this is helping accelerate the world’s transition to low impact mining and transform how companies recover the critical minerals required to power the global shift to clean energy – improving peoples’ lives and enhancing economic prosperity.

We are a dynamic tech scale up of 80 employees (and growing!), and a team that is entrepreneurial by nature and focused on doing things right to deliver great customer outcomes.

We are committed to seeking out the best brains and the most exceptional humans, wherever they come from and however they happen to be packaged.

The Role We’re seeking a Principal Software Developer to report to the Director of Software Engineering and collaborate closely with software developers, data scientists, geoscientists, applied scientists, and DevOps.

This is a hands on individual contributor role.

Ideon’s software engineering team has grown significantly, with strong senior developers building complex systems across cloud platforms, scientific compute, data pipelines, and customer facing products.

As we enter our next growth phase, we’re expanding into new domains such as AI enabled workflows, intelligent automation, and large scale compute platforms.

This role will help guide critical technical decisions as we scale 2x–5x, challenging assumptions, shaping architecture, and supporting teams to make better decisions earlier.

You’ll also contribute to AI first practices, engineering standards, and scalable platform design—using deep technical expertise, strong judgment, and influence through execution.

Hands On Technical Leadership Act as a senior technical contributor, partnering with teams to solve complex problems and guide critical decisions.

Spend hands on time in the codebase, focusing on high risk, high impact areas and building prototypes or proofs of concept to de risk architecture.

Support software developers through design, optimization, and debugging, helping teams make strong decisions early and move faster with less rework.

Lead architectural design and platform evolution across APIs, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Establish reusable patterns and reference architectures to scale development and reduce duplication across teams.

Drive pragmatic build vs.

buy decisions and document key architectural tradeoffs to strengthen institutional knowledge.

Own and evolve architecture for large scale compute systems, including distributed workloads, scheduling, and optimization across CPU, memory, and GPU.

Evaluate and guide adoption of HPC and distributed technologies (e.g., Ray, Dask, Kubernetes, Azure HPC) to support scalable compute platforms.

Apply an AI first mindset, identifying how AI and automation can shape architecture, improve engineering productivity, and unlock new product capabilities.

Strategic Partnership & Influence Contribute to Ideon’s broader software engineering strategy: participating in planning cycles, roadmap reviews, and strategic discussions with leadership.

Success in the role looks like: Faster, higher quality technical decisions, with clear tradeoffs and reduced rework.

Scalable, well architected systems and platforms that support growth and increase team velocity.

Reliable, efficient compute systems and thoughtful integration of AI first practices, with strong technical leadership demonstrated through hands on impact.

Priorities in the first few months will include: Build a deep understanding of Ideon’s systems and architectural challenges while establishing credibility through hands on contribution.

Partner with senior engineers to identify high impact areas and contribute to key technical initiatives and decisions.

Identify opportunities to improve system design, developer experience, and platform consistency.

Qualifications Must haves – You’ll need the following to move forward in the hiring process (and be successful in the role). Education: Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of training and experience 12+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years operating in senior technical leadership roles as a Staff, Principal, Lead, or Architect level individual contributor.

Strong backend expertise (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C#) and hands on experience building cloud native systems in Azure or similar environments.

Deep experience with distributed systems, APIs, and platform engineering practices.

Background in HPC or large scale compute workloads, including CPU, memory, and GPU intensive systems.

Proven ability to influence teams through technical depth, execution, and experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.

Well developed communication skills in English at a fluent or professional level; able to be assertive and respectful.

Legally able and currently documented to work full time hours in Canada.

We also look for the following from all new Ideon team members: Experience in or excitement for working in a tech scale up; happy to wear a few hats and adjust on the fly.

An ambitious, can do attitude; you get that we’re doing challenging work and are excited to dive in.

Enthusiastic and confident to take initiative and be adaptable in an agile, fast paced environment.

Solid teamwork skills; you’re accountable to yourself and your team and will jump in to help where you can.

Creative solutioning mindset with great problem solving skills.

Insatiable curiosity paired with a drive to deliver.

Able to work well under pressure and to meet committed deadlines.

Great interpersonal skills; able to build relationships with colleagues, customers, and external stakeholders.

Able to contribute something “extra” to our culture beyond the work that you do, like wowing people with your home baked goods, sharing improv comedy skills, or organizing sports games.

Nice to haves – While it would be nice if you had some of the below, we’re happy to train, coach and share our experience.

Experience deploying and operating AI/ML systems in production environments.

Familiarity with agentic AI, LLM orchestration, MCP servers, or developer focused AI tooling.

Experience with GPU accelerated computing, CUDA, or optimizing scientific workloads.

Exposure to domains such as geoscience, industrial systems, hardware software integration, or scientific applications.

More Role Details Location: Ideon’s office is located at #150 – 4611 Viking Way in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.

Ideon is a hybrid workplace, with some roles required to work fully in office (it’s tricky to manufacture from home!). This is a hybrid role.

We love seeing folks in the office 2+ times a week; you’re welcome to work from home the remainder of the week or come into the office all 5 days if you prefer.

Our “be an adult” approach means you have the flexibility to determine your in office schedule while factoring in the positive impact of face to face connection and communication with your leader and teammates.

During your first few months, it’s anticipated you’ll spend more time in the office to support role specific onboarding and relationship building.

Hours of work: 8 hrs/day, M F.

Typical working hours are 9AM 5PM-ish pacific time; some employees shift slightly earlier or later based on business and personal needs.

As Ideon is a high technology company, you may be asked to be flexible with your hours due to business requirements.

What We Offer Salary: The annual salary range for this role, in Canadian dollars, is $135,000 - $190,000 . Early equity option allocations upon hire plus the opportunity to earn performance based option allocations annually are also highlights of our total rewards package.

An opportunity to work with a dynamic tech scale up.

You will contribute to advancing a ground breaking solution that generates significant economic and environmental benefit.

Tuition support ($2500/year). Extended health and dental benefits, employee assistance program, and health/personal spending accounts to cover things that may not fall into other categories (i.e.

exercise classes, transit, daycare, pet insurance). Minimum 3 weeks paid time off to start, including an annual paid closure between the Christmas and New Year’s stat holidays.

5 paid sick days + other leaves per employment standards legislation.

For hybrid/remote roles, 2 weeks/year work from almost anywhere.

Parental leave top up.

Employee referral bonus.

Casual dress – we like our jeans and hoodies.

Free parking & tasty snacks at the office!

While we work hard, we also sprinkle social events and learning opportunities into our days (in person and virtually). What It’s Like at Ideon Great ideas and rich company culture come from diversity of thought, experience, and perspective.

The Ideon culture is anchored in a set of core values that directly shape how we hire, coach, evaluate, and develop our people: Driven by industry, informed by science Inspired to create, wired to deliver Unified team, personally accountable Boldly ambitious, exceptionally human #J-18808-Ljbffr