Staff Engineer, Research Informatics and AI
About The Position
Superluminal Medicines is seeking a Staff Engineer to design and build software systems that move experimental data through the company. The role owns critical systems at the intersection of software engineering, scientific data, and research operations, including compound registration, experimental data ingestion, scientific system integrations, and infrastructure connecting wet lab workflows to the broader data platform. This is a high-ownership engineering role involving production system design, architectural decisions, high-quality software development, and direct collaboration with scientists. The engineer will address complex technical problems, integration challenges, and evolving requirements while building foundational systems for a modern drug discovery organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- 3+ years of Python experience designing maintainable and well-tested software.
- Experience building systems that integrate data across APIs, databases, files, asynchronous processes, and third-party platforms.
- Experience with containers and modern deployment patterns using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing scalable software architecture and making technical design decisions.
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs.
- Experience developing production systems on Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience writing SQL queries, designing relational data models, and developing production data pipelines or workflows.
- Experience developing and operating production software using automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, application monitoring, logging, and incident troubleshooting practices.
Nice To Haves
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another technically complex scientific environment.
- Experience with LIMS, ELNs, compound registration systems, laboratory informatics, inventory platforms, or scientific instruments.
- Experience with drug discovery data, including compounds, assays, experimental results, and scientific metadata.
- Experience with BigQuery, dbt, Dagster, or similar modern data platforms and orchestration tools.
- Experience building internal tools or user-facing applications for technical users.
- Experience with scientific Python, cheminformatics, or bioinformatics workflows.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud security best practices.
- Experience modernizing manual, fragmented, or vendor-dependent operational workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production software systems supporting scientific data and wet lab workflows.
- Own the architecture and implementation of systems for compound registration, experimental data ingestion, validation, transformation, and publishing.
- Build reliable integrations across internal applications, APIs, cloud services, databases, and third-party scientific platforms.
- Develop backend services, data pipelines, and internal applications used directly by scientists and research teams.
- Design systems that are observable, testable, resilient, and maintainable as scientific workflows and data volumes scale.
- Work directly with scientists to understand operational problems, identify root causes, and translate ambiguous workflows into clear technical solutions.
- Improve data quality and system reliability through validation frameworks, automated testing, monitoring, and well-defined interfaces.
- Establish strong engineering practices around code quality, CI/CD, deployment, documentation, and operational ownership.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employee annual deductibles and monthly premiums fully covered.
- 401(k) match program.
- Massachusetts transportation subsidy.
- Equity opportunities.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Bonus opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
