Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Core
Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering to scale the AI-powered drug discovery platform, guiding architecture, infrastructure, and product development for scientists in pharma, biotech, and academia.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead (hands-on IC)
Builds
Production infrastructure, cloud services, APIs, and customer-facing applications for AI-driven protein drug design and enzyme improvement
Domain
Computational Biology / AI for Drug Discovery / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure | product features
Required skills
Software architecture, distributed systems, production infrastructure operations, cloud services (AWS), code review, technical mentorship, system scalability, performance optimization, requirement translation
Preferred skills
Early-stage startup experience, cross-functional stakeholder collaboration, engineering standards establishment
Technologies
AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Docker), ML systems, workflow orchestration
Responsibilities
Partner with CTO on architecture and technical planning; lead design reviews and architectural discussions; contribute directly to codebase across infrastructure and backend services; mentor engineers and guide technical decision-making; improve system reliability and developer productivity; work with customers to translate requirements into solutions
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities