Full Stack Software Engineer, Lab Platform (LIMS)

South San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $111,000–$111,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Build a full-stack Lab Platform (LIMS) that acts as an agentic workflow system, integrating scientific, automation, and machine learning tools to enable scientists to drive lab operations via agents.

Role type

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Lab Platform)

Builds

React/TypeScript frontends, Python backend services, and integrations for instruments, Benchling, and agent runtimes.

Domain

Life Sciences / Drug Discovery / Lab Automation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

React, TypeScript, Python, AWS or GCP, relational databases, version control, code review

Preferred skills

LIMS or lab automation domain experience, LLM/agent framework development, Django, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Docker

Responsibilities

Build full-stack features from concept to deployment; design and implement agentic tooling for lab workflows; collaborate with ML, automation, and biology teams; observe lab workflows to inform tool design.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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About insitro

insitro is a drug discovery and development company using machine learning (ML) and data at scale to decode biology for transformative medicines. At the core of insitro’s approach is the convergence of in-house generated multi-modal cellular data and high-content phenotypic human cohort data. We rely on these data to develop ML-driven, predictive disease models that uncover underlying biologic state and elucidate critical drivers of disease. These powerful models rely on extensive biological and computational infrastructure and allow insitro to advance novel targets and patient biomarkers, des