Founding Forward Deployed Scientist - Agentic Pharma R&D

About the role

Deliver Quinn's science directly to pharma R&D teams and ship what you learn back into the product. Quinn delivers decision-ready science to pharma partners — target validation, translational strategy, trial design, competitive intelligence, and more. Each partner engagement starts with a hard R&D question and ends with a decision package their leadership can act on.

What You'll Do

• Work alongside Quinn to deliver for pharma partners and present findings to their R&D leadership
• Run Quinn and own the quality of what ships
• Write and evaluate LLM prompts daily
• Ship what you learn back into Quinn to extend its capabilities

What You'll Need

• A PhD in a life sciences discipline (biology, chemistry, pharmacology, or related) with computational fluency
• 3+ years in pharma R&D with exposure to multiple stages — not just one silo
• Delivered scientific findings directly to R&D leadership or external partners
• Shipped tools, pipelines, or outputs that other people actually used for decisions
• Hands-on comfort with Git, Python, LLM workflows, and prompt/eval loops
• A self-directed approach — you figure out what needs to happen and do it

Additional Qualifications

• Understand drug development from target to clinic, not just your specialty
• Built something real with LLMs and can explain what worked and what didn't
• Written decision memos, not just papers

What You Might Be Exactly Right For

• An ex-biotech computational scientist who became a product person or operator
• A scientific AI product engineer — hands-on with LLM workflows, thinks in product outcomes
• A technical PM from scientific software who uses the tools and inspects outputs directly

Tech Stack

• Python
• Git
• LLM prompt/eval workflows
• scientific data analysis

Pharma R&D Domain Knowledge

• Across discovery, translational, and clinical stages

First 90 Days

• First 30 days: Deliver for a live pharma partner. Run Quinn end-to-end on a real engagement and present findings to R&D leadership. Prove you can operate independently from day one.
• First 60 days: Own the delivery playbook. Define how partner engagements run and how deployment learnings feed back into Quinn. Ship prompt and eval improvements based on real partner feedback.
• First 90 days: You're defining how Quinn delivers science, not just executing engagements. The team defers to you on partner delivery.

Why Join Us

• Your work directly enables scientific decisions that change how drugs get made in the world
• Shape systems that Fortune 500 pharma depends on
• Competitive compensation with meaningful equity