Backend Engineer for Autonomous Lab Platform

North Carolina State University; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Flexible Spending Account

Retirement Programs

Disability Plans

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off and Other Leave Programs

12 Holidays Each Year

Tuition and Academic Assistance

Childcare benefits

Job summary

North Carolina State University is seeking a Software Engineer to develop backend services, APIs, and tools for the SPEED platform. You will work on workflow orchestration, job scheduling, and integration with robotics, AI, and data services, ensuring reliable deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.

The role emphasizes strong software engineering practices, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and engineers across departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software/computer engineering, or related field.
• Three or more years of relevant software-development experience.
• Proficiency in Python programming and software engineering fundamentals.
• Development and integration of REST APIs, backend services, databases, and event- or workflow-driven systems.
• Use of Git and Linux-based development environments, including automated testing, debugging, and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, experiment-submission tools, and user-facing applications for SPEED.
• Integrate workflow orchestration, scheduling, job queues, platform monitoring, and experiment status tracking.
• Connect robotics, scientific instruments, data services, and AI/optimization tools through reliable software interfaces.
• Deploy and maintain cloud and local services, containers, authentication, logging, monitoring, and related infrastructure.
• Apply strong software engineering practices, including testing, version control, documentation, release management, and reliability engineering.

Skills

Python programming

REST APIs

Backend development

Distributed systems

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Git

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as code

Job description

North Carolina State University is seeking a Software Engineer to develop backend services, APIs, and tools for the SPEED platform. You will work on workflow orchestration, job scheduling, and integration with robotics, AI, and data services, ensuring reliable deployments across cloud and on-premises environments.

The role emphasizes strong software engineering practices, testing, and documentation, with opportunities to collaborate with researchers and engineers across departments.