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Senior Software Engineer, Operations Research

Alewife, Cambridge, MA💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and optimize backend systems and data infrastructure powering orchestration algorithms and lab execution for an AI-driven scientific platform.

Role type

Senior Software Engineer, Operations Research

Builds

(Fleet) orchestrator, Scheduler, Manufacturing Execution System, data pipelines, high-performance APIs, and databases.

Domain

AI-driven scientific platform / Robotics / Life Sciences

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed software development, database architecture (SQL/NoSQL/Vector DBs), high-performance API design, system reliability optimization, cloud infrastructure management, cross-functional collaboration with scientists

Preferred skills

scheduling software development, operations research solvers (OR-Tools, HiGHS, Gurobi), Kubernetes and containerization, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, Python for science

Technologies

Postgres, Flyte, Temporal, NATS/MQTT, FastAPI, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, pandas, polars, numpy, scipy, pytorch

Responsibilities

Design and build APIs and backend services integrating with AI-driven applications; Develop schemas and manage diverse data systems for optimal performance; Drive implementation of backend services focusing on performance and maintainability; Diagnose and optimize system bottlenecks for high availability; Build and deploy production-grade systems on AWS using Kubernetes; Work with robotics scientists to integrate data pipelines and orchestration into scientific workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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