Senior Software Engineer - Applied AI / Cloud

Job Title

Senior Applied AI Software Engineer (Software Engineer III) Reports to: Engineering ManagerDirect Reports: None Role ID: IT10000584CFLSA Classification: ExemptLocation: Hybrid in Long Island City (Queens), NY* * *Must reside in one of the following states: NY, NJ, or CT*

About Us

Opentrons Labworks, Inc. is a disruptive life science company leveraging its integrated lab platform to supercharge the pace of innovation in research and healthcare. Through Opentrons Robotics, thousands of institutions are automating lab operations with flexible, easy-to-use liquid handling lab robots. With our own cutting edge R&D, biopharma and biotech at large can also benefit from our world-class genome-scale cell engineering solutions.

If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, come join us! We provide excellent benefits, competitive compensation, equity packages, and opportunities for growth. Learn more on our Careers Website. About the Role We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer (SWE3) to help build AI-powered features as part of OpentronsAI, our platform that leverages Large Language Models to democratize laboratory automation. This role focuses on the internals of an AI-powered application: building the AWS-based microservices and asynchronous workflows that power protocol generation, integrating LLM calls and knowledge retrieval systems into production SaaS infrastructure, and making sure those systems are reliable and safe at scale for thousands of laboratories globally.

You'll build the ML/AI systems layer that sits underneath the product, from parsing and understanding scientists' natural-language input to the classifiers that route and score it and the embedding infrastructure that grounds model output in real protocol knowledge. Because correctness here isn't optional, you'll treat evaluation as a first-class part of the build, designing the tests and benchmarks that catch bad output