Senior AI Software Engineer

IDEXX is looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join a brand new, greenfield team focused on leveraging AI for developer enablement and tooling.

As we scale our engineering tribes to solve complex challenges in this mission-driven space, we're seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer who thrives on leveraging AI to transform how teams build and innovate.

At IDEXX Veterinary Software, we're pioneering the first vertical SaaS platform for Animal Health—empowering veterinarians worldwide with intelligent tools that save lives and advance care.

In this high-impact role, you'll lead the charge in creating AI-driven systems, tools, and developer experiences that accelerate software development, eliminate friction, and infuse joy into the process. Drawing on the latest in generative AI, machine learning, and agentic systems, you'll prototype intelligent workflows, optimize cross-team collaboration, and drive adoption of cutting-edge tooling. With significant ownership, you'll shape the future of our engineering culture while advancing AI capabilities that directly benefit our customers—such as autonomous agents that streamline veterinary diagnostics and workflows.

What You'll Do

• Architect AI-Powered Developer Tools: Design and implement scalable AI systems using modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) to automate code generation, debugging, and testing—making development faster, more intuitive, and enjoyable for our teams.

• Pioneer Agentic AI Innovations: Advance autonomous AI agents capable of independent decision-making and problem-solving, integrating them into our SaaS platform to deliver real value, like predictive analytics for animal health data or adaptive user experiences.

• Enhance Engineering Workflows and Experiences: Collaborate across tribes to identify bottlenecks, prototype AI-enhanced solutions (e.g., natural language interfaces for DevOps tasks), and foster best-in-class practices—while mentoring junior engineers and influencing strategic roadmaps.

What you need to succeed: 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focusing on Developer Experience or developer tooling.

• Deep understanding of software development workflows, CI/CD, source control (Git), testing, and automation.

• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML models into engineering processes (e.g., LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source LLMs).

• Proficiency in backend development (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js) and scripting languages.

• Experience building plugins or extensions for developer tools (e.g., VS Code, GitHub Apps, CLI tools).

• Strong communication skills and empathy for developer pain points.

• Bias for action — you turn insights into working solutions quickly and iteratively.

Bonus Points

• Experience building with AI platforms (OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, etc.).

• Experience working in platform engineering, productivity engineering, or DevOps.

• Prior contributions to open-source developer tools.

• Familiarity with observability and performance tooling.

• Background in machine learning, natural language processing, or prompt engineering.

Our teams build with modern web technologies like TypeScript and Go, embracing cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, domain services, containerization, and distributed computing. We prioritize DevOps excellence through CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and reliability engineering, ensuring AI integrations are robust and performant in a fast-paced environment.

If you're a senior AI leader passionate about pushing boundaries—whether through generative models for creative problem-solving or scalable agentic systems—and excited to apply your expertise to a domain with profound impact (like improving animal health outcomes), join us in making veterinary software smarter and more accessible.

Apply now and help us redefine AI's role in animal healthcare innovation!

So, what is IDEXX Veterinary Software?  

At IDEXX we are dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of pets, people, and livestock around the world. Through the power of the cloud, IDEXX Veterinary Software solutions simplify the flow of information across any practice and link vets to what they need when they need it. Patient data. Client communications. Business insights. All at their fingertips.

Our journey is solving veterinary practices’ most pressing needs by focusing on innovation to drive meaningful improvements in animal health.

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.