General Software Engineer

Medra•San Francisco, CA

31d•Onsite

About The Position

At Medra, our mission is to use AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research, with the ultimate goal of eradicating disease. We are building a Scientific Physical AI platform that helps scientists scale their lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data than before, whether to bring a new life-saving drug to the clinic or to train a ground-breaking biology foundation model. This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting! As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other. Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience.
Expert-level proficiency in Python
Passion for code optimization, profiling, and performance tuning.
Strong understanding of code quality, software design patterns, and best practices.
Fast learner who can quickly grasp new technologies and frameworks.
Startup mindset: hands-on, proactive, and ownership-driven.

Nice To Haves

Interest and experience in robotics, machine learning, or computer vision (bonus points for past experience working with hardware)

Responsibilities

Design and implement user experiences that spark joy in our customers
Build kick-ass internal tools to allow us to build and support our robotic fleet with ease
Elicit and collect feedback from our customers and your coworkers on how to make their jobs easier