Principal Software Engineer – Robotics Platform

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of core Robotics Automation Platform services, APIs, data models, and integration patterns.

• Build orchestration capabilities that coordinate multi-step laboratory and robotics workflows across instruments, robots, scientific applications, and cloud services.

• Define how the platform represents equipment capabilities, operational state, configuration, commands, events, errors, workflow progress, and workflow results.

• Build reusable integration patterns for laboratory instruments, liquid handlers, robot arms, sensors, workflow tools, ELN/LIMS platforms, scheduling systems, and vendor APIs.

• Design secure controls for access, approvals, policy enforcement, audit history, traceability, human review, and safe recovery from failed workflow runs.

• Define the events, metrics, logs, and telemetry needed for monitoring, dashboards, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and product decisions.

• Partner with Shared Experience & Authoring to enable administrator experiences, workflow monitoring, and troubleshooting experiences.

• Work with Product Management, customers, scientists, and automation vendors to translate real operating workflows and constraints into durable platform capabilities.

• Establish technical standards for performance, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operational readiness.

• Develop and validate pilot-ready capabilities using simulation, integration environments, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and real customer workflows where appropriate.

• Design modular services and connectors so new instruments, robotics platforms, workflow types, and customers can be added without redesigning the platform.

• Lead technical design reviews, resolve complex cross-team technical issues, mentor engineers, and communicate technical trade-offs clearly to engineering and product stakeholders.