Staff Agentic Software Engineer
Bio-Rad Laboratories1 month ago
Irvine, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set automation and test direction for a domain or product area, embedding agentic tools into CI, infrastructure, and test workflows.
- Design scalable automation systems built around agentic tools and approaches.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for automation and test infrastructure decisions across multiple teams.
- Drive adoption of agentic automation practices, including agent orchestration and oversight.
- Mentor senior engineers and contribute to their technical growth.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align automation and test priorities with business needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field; a master's degree is preferred.
- 7–10 years of experience developing CI automation and test infrastructure, including direction-setting across a domain or product area.
- Early, hands-on adoption experience with agentic or AI-assisted automation tools.
- Deep technical leadership across automation and test infrastructure.
- Strong AWS and cloud infrastructure experience for building and deploying applications at scale.
- Proficiency directing AI-assisted automation tools and orchestrating multi-step agent workflows in engineering work.
- Experience with modern agentic and test automation tools such as Kiro, Claude Code, Playwright, Shiplight, AWS, and Terraform.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and managing cross-functional stakeholders and priorities across teams.
Benefits
- The position must be based in Irvine, CA or Hercules, CA, within commuting distance of the office, and is identified as hybrid.
- Benefits include medical plans, employer HSA funds, fertility support, life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 401(k) with profit sharing, employee stock purchase opportunities, mental health support, learning and development, education benefits, student debt relief, pet insurance, wellness support, paid time off, and Employee Resource Groups.
- The position offers a variable annual bonus based on individual objectives and company performance.
About Bio-Rad Laboratories
Bio-Rad Laboratories builds instruments, reagents, consumables, and software for life science research and clinical diagnostics labs. Its product lines support workflows to separate, identify, analyze, and amplify biological materials, and to monitor disease through diagnostic quality controls. Founded in 1952 and headquartered in Hercules, California, Bio-Rad is a public company traded on the NYSE with global manufacturing and distribution operations.