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Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Life Sciences)

New York City, NYFull-time$280k2026-10-15 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Trusted technical advisor to AI-native life sciences and biotech startups, helping them build products and research pipelines using Claude.

Role type

Senior Applied AI Engineer (Life Sciences)

Builds

Custom evaluation frameworks, scalable architectures, reference implementations, and sample code for scientific workflows.

Domain

Life Sciences / Biotech / AI Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Life sciences domain expertise (genomics, drug discovery, molecular design), LLM application development, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, startup experience, technical communication

Preferred skills

Experience with founders, ability to run technical workshops, travel for customer sites

Technologies

Claude, MCP servers, genomics platforms, literature databases, experimental repositories

Responsibilities

Lead deep technical engagements with startup engineering and scientific teams, develop prototypes and technical documentation, create reference implementations and sample code, identify patterns across engagements to improve product features, represent Anthropic in the life sciences ecosystem

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC