Principal Full Stack Engineer (Agentic AI)

Role overview

Principal Full Stack Engineer (Agentic AI) is responsible for accelerating the development of our Agentic AI platform and applications by understanding and identifying optimal components to address business need, architecting the solution, guiding and mentoring the team, and ensuring quality, reliability and scalability of the solution.

This position reports to the Senior Director of AI and Data Strategy and is part of the AI and Data Team located in Cambridge, UK, and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to

• Design and lead the delivery of Abcam's Agentic AI platform and applications, including RAG systems and agent workflows, for use by both internal and external Abcam customers.
• Establish engineering best practices for GenAI/LLM applications, including system design patterns, evaluation approaches, reliability, scalability, and maintainability standards across the AI engineering lifecycle.
• Act as a technical leader by mentoring engineers, influencing architectural direction, and driving the successful delivery and adoption of Agentic AI capabilities.

The essential requirements of the job include

• Strong software engineering capability, primarily in TypeScript (with Python as an additional benefit) with backend and API development skills.
• Demonstrated ability to design, deploy, and operate production-grade AI systems with focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Expertise in Agentic AI systems: RAG, prompt engineering, LLM integration, MCP, agentic workflows, model evaluation, fine tuning.
• Cloud infrastructure expertise in the deployment of AI apps (AWS preferred).
• Expertise in CI/CD best practice including orchestration, containerisation and testing.
• Strong inter-personal skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business problems into technical solutions.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in

• Monorepo technologies (nx, lerna), infrastructure-as-code technologies (eg Terraform), multi application deployment pipelines, frontend development framework (eg React, Angular, Svelte)
• Multi-agent orchestration tooling (LangGraph, LangChain, PocketFlow), evaluation of prompts, agents and pipelines in multi-agent solutions
• Neo4J or a similar knowledge graph database technology

Benefits

Abcam, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit https://www.danaher.com.

Danaher is a leading global life sciences, biotechnology, and diagnostics innovator, helping to solve many of the world's most important health challenges, ultimately improving quality of life for billions of people today, while setting the foundation for a healthier, more sustainable tomorrow. The Danaher ecosystem is made up of more than 15 businesses united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. Please read our Applicant Data Privacy Notice carefully here.