Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Autoscience6 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$300k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of core backend and infrastructure systems.
- Own projects from architecture and design through production deployment.
- Write technical design documents and drive engineering decisions.
- Build and maintain 24/7 production systems supporting autonomous research agents.
- Partner with research teams to productionize experimental workflows.
- Guide and collaborate with engineers on system design and implementation.
- Improve system reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Help shape the technical direction of the platform.
Requirements
- Experience leading complex engineering projects or technical initiatives and owning work from design through deployment.
- Experience acting as a technical lead or guiding small teams of engineers.
- Strong software design, architecture, maintainability, and system design tradeoff skills.
- Demonstrable experience writing clear technical design documents.
- Strong experience with Python.
- Experience building or operating backend or production infrastructure in 24/7 production environments.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar cloud infrastructure.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and researchers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Strong candidates typically have 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
Benefits
- Full-time, on-site role in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tech Stack
About Autoscience
Autoscience builds AI agents that autonomously conduct AI research and generate peer-reviewed literature, including announcing an agent with work accepted to ICLR 2025 Workshops. Its tools are aimed at research labs and R&D teams seeking to automate parts of the AI research process, offered as software and collaborations. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the privately held company raised a seed round in 2026.