SandboxAQ-posted 5 months ago
$154,000 - $216,000/Yr
Full-time • Mid Level

SandboxAQ is seeking a backend engineer generalist to contribute to our drug discovery and chemistry simulation platform. You’ll get exposure to a wide variety of areas, including core application development, DevOps, and user and product work. You will contribute to the core functionalities, APIs, and data and control planes of our platform that powers R&D in life sciences and chemistry simulation. You will also contribute to build, testing, and deployment pipelines for a complex set of build artifacts and IaC-managed infrastructure. You’ll work closely with researchers and the product team to gather and prioritize feedback, ensuring that your contributions have a direct impact on users. You’ll bring experience writing high-quality, readable, well-tested code, with a track record of working in a fast-moving software development team, exploring new technologies, and solving problems across an entire software stack.

  • Contribute to the development of SandboxAQ’s chemistry and life sciences simulation platform.
  • Work closely with users and members of the product team to measure the impact of the code you develop on users, gather feedback, and iterate on your software.
  • Participate in planning, design, and sprint ceremony meetings.
  • Embed closely with R&D teams to assist in delivering project goals and drive adoption of practices and tooling.
  • Collaborate closely with the product team and internal stakeholders in all phases of software development to validate the solutions you propose and implement.
  • In collaboration with the rest of the engineering team, build and manage infrastructure for SandboxAQ’s simulation and data platform.
  • Review code and participate in design and architectural discussions.
  • 3+ years of experience with Python with knowledge of software design principles and architectural patterns.
  • Comfort writing clean, readable, well-tested, maintainable code.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider. GCP preferred.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively influence a cross-functional team.
  • Experience with building REST APIs and knowledge of best practices.
  • Knowledge of cloud orchestration technologies like K8s or batch-type systems as well as workflow management tools (Airflow or similar).
  • Knowledge of database systems and related concepts: ORMs, schemas, and transactional vs. analytic systems.
  • Exposure to Terraform or another IaC system, along with DevOps and GitOps.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and building CI/CD pipelines.
  • Domain experience in advanced materials, drug discovery, cheminformatics, or other areas of chemistry or biology, especially experience with AI systems applied to these domains.
  • Delivering scientific code for R&D projects, especially in the simulation and numerical optimization domains.
  • HCP systems, GPU programming and optimization.
  • AI applications in knowledge graphs, AI agents, and multi-agent systems.
  • Competitive salaries
  • Stock options depending on employment type
  • Generous learning opportunities
  • Medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Family planning/fertility benefits
  • PTO (summer and winter breaks)
  • Financial wellness resources
  • 401(k) plans
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