Research Principal AI Software Engineer

About the role

The new hire will contribute to the next generation of innovations in automated instrumentation workflows and expert AI user assistance. The Waters Global Research team performs early, cutting-edge research on novel chromatography and mass spectrometry systems that have a direct impact on laboratory testing, drug discovery and development and food safety.

What you'll do

• Ideate and experiment with LLM and ML approaches for innovating new proofs of concept, generate metrics, and evaluate results
• Design and build agentic AI solutions, including multi-step workflows with tool use and orchestration
• Develop RAG pipelines over scientific and instrument data, covering document ingestion, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval evaluation
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain agentic AI solutions in the cloud (AWS)
• Build and maintain REST APIs that expose models and agents to internal and instrument software

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Research
• Python
• Git
• AWS
• LLMs
• Machine learning
• M.Sc or PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech

Good to have

• Java
• C#
• Docker
• Scala
• REST APIs
• PyTorch