Overview

Waters Global Research department is looking for an energetic and creative AI engineer to join the team and help bring technologies in analytical instrumentation to the forefront of the industry. The new hire will contribute to the next generation of innovations in automated instrumentation workflows and expert AI user assistance.

The Waters Global Research team performs early, cutting-edge research on novel chromatography and mass spectrometry systems that have a direct impact on laboratory testing, drug discovery and development and food safety. The role of this Principal AI engineer will be to develop and implement generative AI solutions, including agentic AI systems and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), train and fine-tune LLMs and traditional ML classification and prediction models, and deploy these solutions in the cloud. The principal engineer will also be responsible for assisting with the development of data pipelines for specialty instrument data,



and experimenting with current data and algorithmic features to maximize the efficiency and efficacy of the results from our analytical instrumentation.

This position follows a hybrid work model, with three days a week (Tuesday to Thursday) working from the GCC office at RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur, Bangalore, and the remaining two days working remotely.

Responsibilities

• Ideate and experiment with LLM and ML approaches for innovating new proofs of concept, generate metrics, and evaluate results

• Design and build agentic AI solutions, including multi-step workflows with tool use and orchestration

• Develop RAG pipelines over scientific and instrument data, covering document ingestion, embeddings, vector search, and retrieval evaluation

• Deploy, monitor, and maintain agentic AI solutions in the cloud (AWS)

• Build and maintain REST APIs that expose models and agents to internal and instrument software

• Work as technical lead on selected generative AI research projects and company initiatives

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📌 Research Principal AI Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 waters
📍 Bengaluru