Senior Software Engineer

Are you ready to join Connecticut Innovation’s vibrant community of innovators? Connecticut Innovations (“CI”) is Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, and we are passionate about serving our portfolio of 240+ companies across various industries, with strengths in life sciences, technology, and climate tech.

Come join Cypher AI, a Connecticut Innovations portfolio company!

About Cypher AI

Cypher AI builds AI-native infrastructure for life science R&D. We turn fragmented tools, manual workflows, and legacy ELN/LIMS systems into structured, executable, reviewable systems for biotech, pharma, and scientific teams. We are early, customer-driven, and building a new category.

Build the AI-native platform that lets scientists describe what they need and get production-grade lab software in minutes. Full-stack, from agent orchestration to UI.

What You’ll Do

• Design and ship end-to-end features across our Node/React stack and AI agent layer.
• Take ownership of meaty problems — LIMS data models, agent tool execution, multi-tenant infrastructure — and see them through to production.
• Raise the engineering bar: testing patterns, code review, on-call quality.
• Work directly with customers and founders to turn fuzzy problems into shippable software.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years building and operating production software; comfort across the stack.
• You lead, collaborate, and consistently deliver compelling and innovative solutions.
• Strong backend foundations (Node, MongoDB or similar, AWS) and willingness to own UI work too.
• Experience shipping AI / LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus.
• You orchestrate AI agents to produce code that other engineers — and other agents — can easily work with; you debug things others would give up on.
• Bonus: prior work in lab software, scientific data, or bioinformatics.

Why Join Cypher AI

Scientific progress moves at the speed of the tools scientists use. We believe the next generation of breakthroughs in medicine, biology, and human health depends on giving R&D teams infrastructure built for how modern science actually works. That is the mission: to accelerate discovery by making complex scientific work structured, executable, and reviewable. You will own the marketing function from the ground up and help define a new category of AI-native scientific infrastructure, while shaping how the field comes to understand it.

We hold ourselves to three values, and we look for them in everyone who joins:

• Care for the customer. We start from the scientist’s problem and stay close to it. Every message, asset, and campaign earns its place by serving the people doing the work.
• Operate with urgency. We move fast, ship, learn, and iterate. Speed is how a small team builds a category before anyone else does.
• Deliver at a high standard. Our customers get the details right, and so do we. We hold a high bar for the quality and rigor of everything we put into the world.

Connecticut Innovations and its portfolio companies are proud equal opportunity employers and are committed to attracting, retaining, and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce.