Staff Software Engineer

The role: A hands-on Staff Software Engineer (8+ yrs) to be the technical anchor of a small team - writing and reviewing code daily while mentoring three junior engineers and establishing engineering best practices, and partnering with product, customer success, and founders to ship zero-to-one AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Own and build AI-powered products end-to-end (agentic workflows, LLM features with production evals)

• Technical lead and mentor for three junior engineers; set best practices for code review and process

• Partner with CTO, PM, and customer success to shape zero-to-one products

• Architect and deliver full-stack apps across frontend, backend, infra, and data pipelines

Software Engineering, Funding, Healthcare, Drug Development, Clinical Trial, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Biology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering, Best Practices, 8-15 yrs full-stack product engineering, building AI/LLM features

• Zero-to-one, customer-facing product background (not deep infra)

• Recent (1-2 yrs) hands-on shipping of LLM features / AI agents in production

Nice-to-have

• Mix of startup (seed-Series B, founding/early hire) and larger-company experience

• CS degree or equivalent

• Production AI evals / LLM observability (LangSmith, Braintrust, W&B); multi-step agentic pipelines

• Genuine interest in bio, life sciences, or healthcare

Base salary: $210K-$260K, flexible for exceptional candidates

• Equity: 1-1.5%

• Full-time, hybrid: 3 days/week in-office (Mon, Tue, Thu), Financial District, San Francisco

• Visa: open to transfers (e.g., OPT, H-1B transfers); no new sponsorships

• Interview process: 3 steps - 30-min intro call, virtual system design interview, final on-site (technical + behavioral + team lunch)