Engineer, Software Engineering
Flagship Pioneering, Inc.1 day ago
Cambridge, MA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$74k - $127k/yr
Responsibilities
- Learn experimental workflows and identify opportunities to replace manual sample and results handling with reliable computational workflows.
- Design reusable data models, schemas, interfaces, and workflows connecting computational screening with experimental records.
- Build and orchestrate pipelines that parse files and records, harmonize metadata, validate results, and load shared systems.
- Provide data through APIs, visualizations, and AI-enabled interfaces.
- Configure and operate AWS infrastructure while preserving provenance, units, controls, quality checks, and data integrity.
- Write meaningful tests, detect faulty joins or transformations, and collaborate directly with experimental scientists on metadata and laboratory workflows.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience after an M.S., preferably in Computer Science, with biology exposure preferred.
- Hands-on programming, effective orchestration of AI coding agents, or both, with the ability to specify architecture, validate implementations, and own results.
- Experience with relational data models, ORMs, sample and experiment identity, and query-oriented modeling decisions.
- Python data engineering experience; Pandas, NumPy, and PyArrow are useful.
- Integration and automation experience with FastAPI, Benchling, and MCP.
- Working knowledge of AWS services including S3, RDS, EC2, Secrets Manager, and Bedrock.
- Strong judgment regarding data integrity and demonstrated delivery experience.
- Biological knowledge involving genes, proteins, cell types, antibody assays, transcriptomics, proteomics, controls, and replicates is strongly preferred.
- Helpful qualifications include laboratory automation, LLM applications, Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, React/TypeScript, Vite, Plotly, and relational database familiarity.
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage, an annual incentive program, retirement benefits, and a broad range of other benefits are offered.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Flagship Pioneering, Inc.
Flagship Pioneering invents, builds, and finances platform biotechnology companies in human health and sustainability, providing founding science, capital, and operational support to entrepreneurs and researchers. The privately held firm, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has originated more than 100 ventures and maintains an ecosystem of 40+ companies. Notable portfolio companies include Moderna, Denali Therapeutics, Generate:Biomedicines, Indigo Agriculture, and Tessera Therapeutics.