Senior AI Platform Engineer - Robotics & Lab Automation

Kelly Services; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners is hiring a Software Engineer to build the core software powering an AI platform and autonomous laboratory systems. The role spans backend services, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and production infrastructure, with work that may control systems in the physical world.

You will collaborate across software, robotics, ML, and experimental automation, learn new technologies, take ownership, and ship reliable systems in a demanding environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production software end to end.
• Experience with modern backend development using Python, Go, Rust, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with concurrent and asynchronous programming, including event loops, cancellation, bounded queues, and task orchestration under failure conditions.
• Understanding of distributed systems challenges, including timeouts, retries, partial failures, and production debugging.
• Experience designing or operating fault-tolerant systems, with idempotency, dead-letter queues, and safe rollback.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization.
• Strong engineering judgment, with emphasis on correctness, maintainability, and clear interfaces.
• High ownership and proactive approach to identifying problems, fixing, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Build agent capabilities and tools, including API integrations, code execution, literature retrieval, and workflow automation.
• Develop scientific workflow orchestration for processes like Bayesian optimization, experiment scheduling, and long-running jobs.
• Implement retries, idempotency, and safeguards for workflows that may fail.
• Build pipelines to ingest, store, and transform data used by models and language models.
• Create internal platforms, tooling, SDKs, shared services, and service templates.
• Develop observability and reliability systems with logs, metrics, tracing.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Async programming

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Software design

Observability

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners is hiring a Software Engineer to build the core software powering an AI platform and autonomous laboratory systems. The role spans backend services, data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and production infrastructure, with work that may control systems in the physical world.

You will collaborate across software, robotics, ML, and experimental automation, learn new technologies, take ownership, and ship reliable systems in a demanding environment.