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Principal Systems Developer – Kernel
Intersystems Corporation · 🇺🇸 Boston, MA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 53 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Intersystems Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Developer Support Engineer II” (Computer Systems Analysts) in MA: $103k–$159k, median $106k. Most were filed at wage level II (50%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Intersystems Corporation
The US Department of Labor certified 53 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 6 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
The InterSystems IRIS data platform is the engine behind some of the world’s most important applications. At its core is a super scalable, high performance database engine built to naturally and flexibly store data accessed from multiple data models, including multi-dimensional arrays, key/value, relational tables, and objects. The database engine runs on a variety of operating systems including Linux, AIX and Windows. It’s designed to scale on large NUMA machines, distributed cache clusters, and the cloud. The database kernel team needs a creative and motivated developer to join them in designing, implementing and enhancing components of the database engine and its embedded programming language. As part of a small team at the center of the data platform, you can expect to make a large impact with a high degree of independence. Responsibilities • Compose elegant, efficient, reliable and maintainable source code in C, with some C++ • Analyze, develop and optimize algorithms and data structures for efficiency in memory and/or modern storage devices • Analyze and understand concurrency control and memory ordering issues around access to shared memory structures • Learn, maintain and extend the embedded database programming language (ObjectScript) that comprises the application interface to the database • Enhance interactions with modern operating systems and hardware devices • Develop and maintain database management APIs • Debug complex problems; develop and run test code • Compose internal design documentation and guide external documentation • Stay up to date with operating system, storage and database technology Experience Required • 10+ years developing low-level system code for mission-critical software • Experience in C or C++; assembly is a plus. • Strong technical knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, concurrency control, compiler and interpreter methods, and software engineering techniques • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Commitment to creating robust code to run for decades in high-stakes deployments • Experience using AI-assisted tools (e.g. copilots, summarisation tools, or chatbots) with an ability to critically evaluate and verify AI-generated outputs • Demonstrated ability to learn, evaluate, adapt to, propose and implement AI-augmented workflows in order to continually enhance your own, and the team’s productivity • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression or any other legally protected category. InterSystems is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. InterSystems is providing a current good faith estimate of the anticipated base salary range for this position depending on a variety of factors including experience, education, skills, and performance. Other compensation may include a discretionary annual variable target incentive. The company also provides generous employee benefits including: • Medical, vision, and dental insurance • Short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance • 401(k) Profit Sharing Contribution • Paid Time Off and Holidays • Parental Leave • Tuition reimbursement The estimated base compensation range for this role is: $144,000 — $205,000 USD About InterSystems InterSystems, a creative data technology provider, delivers a unified foundation for next-generation applications for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries. Our data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organi