Full Stack Engineer (Los Altos)

Cheiron•Los Altos, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Cheiron is a Stanford-founded AI company building an AI-native operating system for the pharma, biotech, and broader life sciences industry. Since launching in 2024, we've rapidly grown our global user base. In Korea, we reached 22% of industry users within six months and are now used across 200+ pharma and biotech companies as we continue to scale quickly. We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI to help build Cheiron's core product and infrastructure. This role spans the full stack — backend systems, AI workflows, RAG and search pipelines, APIs, and the customer-facing product itself. You won't own just one slice; you'll work deeply across the product and systems and solve whatever problems need solving. We build products that run in real customer environments — not research demos or prototypes. We're looking for a hands-on builder who can quickly structure ambiguous problems and turn them into highly polished products. You don't need to be an AI researcher or a life sciences domain expert, but we care deeply about strong engineering fundamentals and real experience designing, building, and operating LLM systems.

Requirements

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 AI-driven systems such as LLMs, agents, RAG, and vector DBs
Full-stack range, comfortable working through the frontend with React and TypeScript
The drive to set your own priorities and ship quickly, even when specs are incomplete
Active use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience designing and operating LangGraph, agent frameworks, or RAG systems in production
Experience with vector DBs, semantic search, and knowledge graphs
Experience building enterprise SaaS, or pharma, biotech, or healthcare products
Familiarity with life sciences domain data such as academic literature, clinical trials, regulatory documents, and patents
Experience at a seed or early-stage startup

Responsibilities

Design and build backend services on Python, FastAPI, and Postgres
Build applied AI workflows using the OpenAI API, LangGraph, vector DBs, and search systems
Develop ingestion, indexing, and search pipelines for life sciences data, including academic papers, clinical, regulatory, safety, and patent sources
Build customer-facing features end to end, from the data model to the API to the React/TypeScript frontend
Build systems that ground AI-generated outputs in source data with traceable, verifiable citations so they can be trusted in real pharma and biotech work
Work directly with founders, domain experts, and early customers, owning outcomes rather than just closing tickets