Founding Engineer

About the role

You will build the core agentic frameworks and evaluation systems that power our Source → Diligence → Decide product.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on agentic orchestration frameworks: Develop robust systems for tool calling, routing, memory management, guardrails, provenance tracking, and failure recovery to ensure seamless agent performance.
• Create comprehensive tools for our agents and PoS model, including offline replay, regression testing, and confidence calibration to validate and refine system accuracy.
• Manage the full lifecycle from data ingestion and processing to user experience and system reliability, incorporating tight feedback loops from customers to drive rapid improvements.
• Tackle challenges with messy, real-world inputs like PDFs, tables, slides, non-English sources, and conflicting evidence to deliver reliable results.
• Collaborate on the product roadmap, customer integrations, and technical direction as we transition from a platform to owning and advancing key assets.

Requirements

• Built and shipped complex backend or ML systems in production, with a bias toward reliability
• Obsess over evaluation, observability, and failure modes
• Thrive in ambiguity and move fast without waiting for permission
• Communicate clearly and take ownership in low-process environments
• Have been underestimated before
• Have been told you're "too intense"
• Get bored in the absence of hard problems
• Have hacker house vibes appeal to you

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering, full stack
• Experience with visa requirements: US citizenship/visa not required

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience with complex backend or ML systems
• Attention to detail and a bias towards reliability
• Ability to work in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
• Effective communication and ownership in low-process environments

Benefits

• Competitive compensation range: $90K - $200K
• Flexible work schedule: 0.50% - 1.50%
• Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote

Pay

• $90K - $200K

Schedule

• 0.50% - 1.50%

Company Information

Convexia is building an AI-maximalist pharma company. We replace months of manual drug asset diligence with automated asset sourcing, in silico scientific evaluation, commercial modeling, and clinical risk analysis. These agents feed into our proprietary PoS model to identify high potential drug assets. We sell the platform to pharma BD teams, biotech startups, and rare disease clinician teams today. As we become system-integrated with customers, we will begin owning and advancing assets ourselves through key development milestones.

Founders

Ayaan Parikh