Jobs · Engineering · California

Software Engineer (Open Level)

Formation Bio · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
Engineering$205k–$267k/yrFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship production software that accelerates drug development - from internal tools to user-facing products to platform capabilities.
  • Use AI tools (LLMs, agentic coding systems, retrieval-augmented pipelines) as a core part of how you work, not as an experiment on the side.
  • Get close to the business. Understand the clinical, regulatory, or operational problem you're solving well enough to make good product decisions without waiting for a spec.
  • Build for composability. Clean APIs, structured schemas, machine-readable documentation - what you build needs to be discoverable and extensible by people and agents who aren't engineers.
  • Review and enable contributions from non-engineers. PMs, designers, and domain experts across the company are shipping code. You help ensure quality, security, and maintainability.
  • Prototype rapidly. Many ideas should be live and testable within days, not weeks. Build the tool, get feedback, iterate.
  • Collaborate across engineering, data science, product, and domain teams - the boundaries between these functions are fluid here, and we expect you to operate across them.

Requirements

  • A track record of shipping production systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • You build with AI tools daily. Claude Code, Copilot, agentic workflows - whatever the best current tools are, you're already using them and have opinions about what works.
  • Strong fundamentals: you write clean, maintainable code, you understand distributed systems and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and you can debug hard problems.
  • You're drawn to the problem space, not just the stack. You'd rather understand why a clinical operations team needs a tool than debate framework choices in isolation.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity. You've worked in 0-to-1 settings or early-stage environments where the playbook didn't exist. That energizes you.
  • Excellent communicator. You can explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders and align a room around a decision.
  • Experience in pharma, biotech, or life sciences. Genuine curiosity about the domain.

Qualifications

  • Total Compensation Range: $204,500 - $267,000
  • Your offer will reflect where you fall within the range based on several factors, including role scope, geographic location, and skills & experience.
  • In addition to base salary, we offer equity, comprehensive benefits, and generous perks.

Skills

  • Strong fundamentals in software engineering, including clean code, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience working with AI tools and technologies relevant to drug development.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and understand their needs.
  • Experience in pharma, biotech, or life sciences.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package.
  • Generous perks.

Pay

  • Total Compensation Range: $204,500 - $267,000

Schedule

  • Hybrid model requiring 3 days per week in office.

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