Backend & AI Platform Engineer

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences diagnostics and biotechnology

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences we know time is the most critical facet in the laboratory today: time to get life-saving therapies to patients faster; reclaiming time by automating tedious manual workflows; and saving time spent addressing erroneous or complex results.

We are partners in time and accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of automation. We develop innovations for scientists by scientists with many of our 3300 global colleagues coming from the laboratory.

Its all part of our time-tested approach to bringing meaningful innovations at the speed of life since 1935. And were just beginning. Working together lets put our time and talents together to advance human health for tomorrow.

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The Backend & AI Platform Engineer is responsible for creating the backend platform that powers intelligent automation across scientific workflows. By enabling AI agents to securely access data orchestrate experiments and integrate with complex instrument ecosystems this role directly drives platform scalability customer value and the companys ability to deliver next generation AI-enabled laboratory operations.

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.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• 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.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelors or Masters 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

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 15% domestically and internationally

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Laboratory informatics platforms and standards such as LIMS ELN and SiLA 2 including integration with scientific instruments and laboratory workflows.
• Working in regulated or compliance driven environments including GxP HIPAA SOC 2 or similar frameworks

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is $150000 - $200000. 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.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows 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.

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