Backend & AI Platform Engineer

About the role

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop event-driven backend services and APIs that connect laboratory instruments, cloud infrastructure, and AI agents into a unified platform.
• Design scalable data and context management solutions for LLM-powered systems, including retrieval pipelines, memory, state management, and tool integration frameworks.
• Build and maintain orchestration services that coordinate planning, execution, monitoring, and recovery across heterogeneous AI agents, devices, and software systems.
• Define and govern data contracts, integration standards, and observability practices to ensure reliable, secure, and resilient communication across instrument fleets and platform services.
• Rapidly prototype and evaluate emerging AI and agent technologies, then mature successful solutions into production ready capabilities that meet the performance, reliability, and compliance requirements of regulated customer environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting distributed backend systems and APIs
• Proven experience developing and operating event driven architectures, microservices, and cloud native applications using platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications or multi-agent systems, including orchestration, tool integration, retrieval architecture, and context management
• Strong expertise in API design and scalable backend architecture, with demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype new solutions while maintaining a clear path to production quality enterprise ready implementations

Essential Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 15% domestically and internationally

Pay

The annual salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Automation and is part of the R&D Software team located in San Jose, California and Indianapolis, Indiana.