Senior Software Engineer
Formation Bio5 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Own product or platform outcomes from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and iteration.
- Build and operate production services, APIs, integrations, databases, asynchronous workflows, and distributed systems.
- Build software for people, applications, AI Enabled Employees, and Agents, including permissions, state, observability, and failure handling.
- Design and ship AI-enabled and agentic workflows involving tool use, retrieval, data access, evaluation, and human review.
- Use LLMs and agentic coding systems for exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.
- Partner with Data Engineering on application data models, data products, data contracts, and access patterns.
- Partner with Data Science on ML-powered capabilities, model interfaces, evaluation, and production integration.
- Partner with SRE on deployment, reliability, observability, security, and infrastructure decisions.
- Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and improve product judgment and engineering quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software, or equivalent senior-level experience.
- Strong backend and systems engineering fundamentals, including APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud services, and asynchronous workflows.
- Daily experience using AI tools, LLMs, or agentic development systems in the engineering workflow.
- Experience operating production software with appropriate testing, observability, security, and post-launch follow-through.
- Strong product judgment, communication, collaboration, and ability to make progress with incomplete information.
- Experience building AI-enabled software, agentic workflows, retrieval systems, tool integrations, or other ML-powered products is preferred.
- Familiarity with ML concepts including training versus inference, embeddings, retrieval, evaluation, data quality, and model limitations is preferred.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biology, and/or biotechnology software and data is preferred.
- Full-stack range with primary emphasis on backend, systems, product, and AI engineering is valued.
Benefits
- Equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous perks are offered in addition to base salary.
- Hybrid work requires three days per week in the office.
- Hiring is primarily focused on the New York City and Boston metro areas; Research Triangle, North Carolina, and San Francisco Bay Area applicants may also be considered.
- Applicants must reside in the listed locations or be willing to relocate.
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About Formation Bio
Formation Bio builds AI-driven technology platforms and runs a pharmaceutical development business that designs and executes clinical trials for in-licensed or acquired drugs. It partners with pharma, biotechs, and research groups to take clinical-stage assets through proof of concept and beyond, aiming to reduce trial time and improve data quality. The privately held company is headquartered in New York and originated as TrialSpark before rebranding to Formation Bio.