Founding Product Engineer - Clinical Systems

RDI•Los Angeles, CA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

RDI is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to take technical ownership of their internal software platform. This role involves working directly with the CEO and users to understand problems, design solutions, write code, deploy it, and ensure its reliability. The engineer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of product development, from conception to production support, and will establish engineering standards for future hires. This is a broad role with significant ownership and impact within a modern diagnostics CRO.

Requirements

Ability to ship production software.
Comfortable across the stack.
Comfortable inheriting code you did not write.
Cares about users, reliability, data integrity, and whether the system actually solves the problem.
Can turn an ambiguous problem into a specification without a product manager.
Has enough experience to know what good engineering looks like.
Has enough ambition to build it yourself.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, clinical research, regulated software, or life sciences.
Intellectual curiosity.

Responsibilities

Own and improve the internal software RDI already uses to run clinical studies.
Build new products across study planning, operations, data, regulatory workflows, and automation.
Turn rapidly developed prototypes into reliable production systems.
Own architecture, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, authentication, security, migrations, and production reliability.
Work directly with clinical, laboratory, data, and operating teams.
Understand real-world workflows and make them simpler.
Use AI aggressively where it creates leverage without outsourcing engineering judgment.
Decide what should be built, bought, integrated, automated, or left alone.
Diagnose failures to root cause and improve the system.
Establish the engineering standards that future engineers at RDI will inherit.