Senior AI Engineer IV

Data Innovations (DI) provides laboratories around the world with solutions that range from connectivity to full workflow management. Standardization, flexibility, control, and quality are some of the reasons why more than 4,700 customers worldwide have DI in their lab.

This role’s primary responsibilities are to provide technical leadership and direction to a team to deliver high quality technology solutions in a fast-paced growth environment. This role is expected to demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. The Engineer is expected to rely on extensive experience and judgment to accomplish goals and perform the essential functions and responsibilities of the job. In this role the Consultant Software Engineer will provide technical leadership and direction across all Engineering teams - helping embed AI-enabled development approaches.

The Engineer takes ownership of engineering problems and solves them in novel ways by introducing AI-first mindset and shape how we work not just what we build.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Review, modify, develop, write and implement software applications, usually very complex in nature, with an AI-augmented approach.

• Guide teams in building and refining world-class middleware and platform solutions.

• Provide technical direction for the company and come up with novel ways to solve Engineering problems using AI.

• Champion an AI-first engineering culture across team- introducing AI assigned code delivery, monitoring and proactive bug findings.

• Identify opportunities to embed AI automation in the software lifecycle.

• Serve as org’s authority on emerging AI development practices and champion AI adoption across engineering teams.

• Build relationships with stakeholders of the teams to understand business context and requirements for the solutions that the project team is working to deliver.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• 10+ years of proven hand-on software engineering experience with professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

• 5+ years of working as a technical lead guiding teams through technical decisions

• Experience working in an Agile software development environment including participation in a team using one of the more commonly used process frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP, or Lean)

• Expert level knowledge of AI IDEs with preference for Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro

• Proven ability to design and operate with an AI-first mindset including prompt engineering, context management and agentic coding pipelines

• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generations (RAG) techniques and strategies

• Deep understanding of how to integrate AI tooling across the full SDLC - code regeneration, automated testing, documentation, code review and release process

• Ability to evaluate emerging AI development tools and make data backed solutions to engineering leadership

• Knowledge of computing and technical environments, such as operating systems, communication protocols, software applications, hardware platforms, etc.

• Engineers must be available in a scheduled rotation for after-hours support of escalations of Instrument Manager and/or other DI products for critical issues with customers

• Must comply with and pass initial background check and drug screening, as well as subsequent background checks, drug screenings and vaccine requirements as required by customer contracts

• Ability to follow DI’s policies and procedures and system usage practices
• Must comply with company vaccination policy
• Must have unrestricted work authorization in the United States

Preferred skills and experience:

In addition to the above requirements, the ideal employee/candidate could additionally have experience with the following:

• Experience with fine-tuning models.

• Experience building or governing AI agent pipeline, Agent factories, AI agent pipelines.

• Familiarity with AI governances and responsible AI practices.

• Knowledge of the integration of laboratory information systems, analytical instrumentation, and automation systems., BS or MS degree in a computer science or related field, such as software development and a minimum of 10 years working in a related field OR at least 15 years working in a position as a software developer or similar position., While performing duties of this job, the employee is predominately functioning in a sedentary light office position with high frequency of telephone communication, keyboarding, and computer.

2.62.6 out of 5 stars Remote $164,847 - $210,598 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid holidays, * Salary Range: $164,847.00 - 210,598.00. Compensation will be determined based on education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and market data.
• Bonus: Full-time, non-sales employees are eligible for DI’s annual bonus plan, which takes into account individual, group, and corporate performance.
• Benefits: DI offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, and a 401(k) matching plan.

If you like working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!