Software Development Engineer/Senior Software Development Engineer, Agentic Systems, AI for Drug Discovery
Genentech27 days ago
Daly City, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$110k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and user-facing applications for an agentic drug-design platform.
- Integrate machine learning models, scientific applications, databases, and internal services into reliable end-to-end workflows.
- Implement agentic capabilities including tool execution, workflow orchestration, state management, evaluation, and observability.
- Build software that lets scientists configure, run, inspect, and reproduce computational molecule-design workflows.
- Deploy models and scientific tools into secure, scalable, cloud-based production environments.
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to automated testing, documentation, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.
- Monitor deployed services, troubleshoot issues, and improve platform reliability, performance, and usability.
- Gather user and scientific requirements and translate them into practical software solutions.
- Contribute to technical design decisions and the evolution of the platform architecture.
- Develop familiarity with drug discovery concepts and apply software engineering practices in a scientific research environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience for the Software Engineer level or 5+ years for the Senior Software Engineer level.
- Proficiency in Python and strong fundamentals in API design, automated testing, data modeling, and system design.
- Experience independently delivering production software from technical design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
- Experience building backend services, platform capabilities, developer tools, or user-facing applications in a cloud environment.
- Comfort working with relational databases, asynchronous workflows, containers, version control, and CI/CD practices.
- Ability to translate user and scientific needs into practical technical solutions and communicate with engineers, researchers, product managers, and domain experts.
- Interest in AI-enabled applications and integrating models, scientific tools, and data into reliable workflows.
- Experience with frontend development using a modern framework such as React is preferred.
- Familiarity with agentic application frameworks and standards such as Model Context Protocol, workflow orchestration, retrieval systems, or evaluation frameworks is preferred.
- Experience developing software for scientific research, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, biology, or drug discovery is preferred.
Benefits
- Onsite work is expected at least 3 days per week at the South San Francisco or New York City campus.
- Relocation benefits are not available.
- A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
- The position qualifies for the company benefits described in the provided benefits link.
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About Genentech
Genentech discovers, develops, and commercializes biologic therapies for serious diseases across oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, infectious disease, and metabolism. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in South San Francisco, it operates as a member of the Roche Group, with research centered in its gRED organization and revenue driven by prescription drug sales and collaborations.