Senior AI Engineer (United Kingdom)
STARLIMS Corporation22 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build the agent platform runtime, including planning and execution loops, tool calling, state management, durable execution, coordination, and failure recovery.
- Develop production agents for domain workflows, including goals, actions, execution flows, failure handling, success criteria, grounding, approval gates, and evidence capture.
- Build evaluation harnesses, regression testing, observability, and metrics for multi-step agent behavior and production reliability.
- Implement guardrails, fallbacks, timeouts, cost ceilings, permission controls, prompt-injection protections, and safeguards against data leakage and unsafe tool use.
- Integrate agents with platform APIs and third-party enterprise systems, and build permission-aware retrieval and context pipelines.
- Build and operate backend services on AWS and contribute to system architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including production systems experience.
- Production experience building LLM systems with tool-using or multi-step agentic workflows beyond simple prompting and chat interfaces.
- Strong understanding of LLM behavior, limitations, failure modes, and error compounding across multi-step runs.
- Experience with LLM APIs, tool and function calling, and planning and execution loops.
- Experience evaluating and debugging non-deterministic systems.
- Solid backend and cloud experience with AWS or an equivalent platform.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python.
- Ability to debug distributed and non-deterministic systems and make tradeoffs among accuracy, latency, reliability, and cost.
- Experience owning production systems end-to-end and selecting conventional software when AI is not appropriate.
- Nice-to-have experience with C#, Microsoft .NET Framework, MCP or similar tool and interop protocols, agent-specific evaluation pipelines, regulated systems, retrieval and grounding, Temporal, Step Functions, n8n, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
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About STARLIMS Corporation
STARLIMS Corporation builds enterprise Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and related informatics—ELN, SDMS, and analytics—for regulated and research labs in pharma/biotech, public health, food & beverage, chemicals, oil & gas, and manufacturing. It sells licensed and cloud platforms with implementation and support services. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, STARLIMS is privately held by Francisco Partners and reports deployments in 2,000+ laboratories across 1,100+ customer organizations worldwide.