STARLIMS
provides leading Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) solutions that have served customers around the world for nearly 40 years. Our solution suite helps labs:
Improve the reliability of sampling and testing
Manage complex testing workflows and analytical methods
Simplify compliance and support regulatory standards
Unlock comprehensive reporting, monitoring, and analysis
With multiple support centers across the globe, STARLIMS is used in labs across pharma & biotech, life sciences, food & beverage, manufacturing, petrochemical refineries and oil & gas, chemical, public health, forensics, and environmental industries—offering you exposure to a wide range of customers and career paths.
The Role:
We’re building AI capabilities into STARLIMS, a platform used across life sciences, public health, forensics, and environmental sciences. This role focuses on turning AI into reliable, production-grade systems that operate within real workflows, domain-specific data, and strict accuracy requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Retrieval & Knowledge Systems (Core Focus)
Design and optimize RAG pipelines over domain-specific content
Improve retrieval quality, ranking, and grounding to reduce hallucinations
Build evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy and consistency
Work with fragmented enterprise data and make it usable
AI Systems in Production
Build AI-powered features integrated into STARLIMS workflows
Design for reliability (latency, scale, model variability)
Implement guardrails, fallbacks, and observability
Manage prompt evolution, model drift, and regressions
Agentic & Tool-Using Systems
Develop systems that can reason, call tools, and execute multi-step tasks
Integrate with internal APIs, developer tooling, and external systems
Design controlled execution paths for automated actions
Developer Platform & AI Tooling (Key Area)
Build and evolve a VS Code-based development environment replacing a legacy desktop IDE
Support development across a custom application framework and domain-specific language
Develop AI-assisted workflows for generating, understanding, and debugging applications
Integrate LLMs with platform APIs, developer tools, and contextual knowledge systems
Design extensible mechanisms for AI-assisted multi-step development tasks
Platform & Infrastructure
Build and operate backend services on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.)
Own system architecture and key technical decisions
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines
Tech Stack
Languages:
TypeScript, Python
AI:
OpenAI, Anthropic, vector databases (Pinecone), embeddings
Frontend:
React, Next.js, Tailwind, VS Code Extension API
Backend:
Node.js, AWS Lambda (Python)
Infra:
AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Cognito, API Gateway, IAM), Terraform
Testing:
Jest, Playwright, pytest
What We’re Looking For:
Must Have
6+ years of software engineering experience, including production systems
Experience building RAG systems beyond prototypes
Strong understanding of LLM behavior, limitations, and failure modes
Experience with LLM APIs and prompt/system design
Solid backend and cloud experience (AWS or equivalent)
Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python
You Should Be Comfortable With
Debugging across distributed systems
Making tradeoffs between accuracy, latency, and cost
Working in ambiguous problem spaces
Owning systems end-to-end
Preferred Skills:
AI evaluation pipelines and metrics
Agent/tool-use systems or similar architectures
Developer tooling (VS Code extensions, language tooling)
Workflow automation platforms (n8n, Zapier, etc.)
Experience in regulated or domain-heavy systems
Scaling vector search systems
Experience with containerization and orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
What You'll Bring
Pragmatism in applying AI appropriately
Strong ownership and system design mindset
Comfort in a small, high-autonomy team
Focus on correctness, reliability, and maintainability
Why This Role:
Transform how STARLIMS applications are developed
Drive measurable gains in productivity across developers, testers, and end users
Shape how customers interact with LIMS and non-LIMS data
Work on AI systems inside real workflows
Handle domain-specific data
Build systems requiring consistent, trustworthy behavior
At STARLIMS we offer market competitive benefits such as:
• Competitive health and Wellness (medical, dental, and vision)
• Retirement plan with matching company contribution
• Life Insurance and Disability/Income Protection
STARLIMS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.