5 months ago
Los Altos, CA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services using Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
- Build applied AI workflows with the OpenAI API, LangGraph, vector databases, and search systems.
- Develop ingestion, indexing, and search pipelines for academic, clinical, regulatory, safety, and patent data.
- Build customer-facing features end to end across data models, APIs, and React/TypeScript frontend systems.
- Create systems that ground AI-generated outputs in source data with traceable and verifiable citations.
- Work with founders, domain experts, and early customers while owning outcomes in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience shipping production software end to end.
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience designing APIs, databases, and services.
- Hands-on production experience with LLMs, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, and vector databases.
- Full-stack experience with React and TypeScript.
- Ability to set priorities and ship quickly when specifications are incomplete.
- Active use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
- Preferred experience operating LangGraph, agent frameworks, or RAG systems in production.
- Preferred experience with semantic search, knowledge graphs, enterprise SaaS, pharma, biotechnology, healthcare products, life sciences data, or seed-stage startups.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Lunch and dinner meal allowance.
- Transportation support for early starts and late nights.
- In-office snack bar plus commuting and work travel support.
