Member of Technical Staff – Product Engineering

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Senior Product Engineer (Member of Technical Staff)

Location - South San Francisco, CA - (On-site)

Compensation - $200,000 – $300,000 Base + Competitive Equity

Visa - Visa Sponsorship Available - (Open to Most Visa Types; Net New H-1Bs Generally Not Supported)

Company Stage - High-Growth AI Startup ($13.5M Seed Raised)

Industry - Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Scientific Research, Enterprise Software, Developer Tools

About the Company

The company is building the next generation of AI-powered scientific research platforms by creating intelligent agents that accelerate discovery across biology and life sciences.

Its platform enables scientists and researchers to leverage advanced AI agents capable of processing massive datasets, reasoning over highly specialized scientific domains, and automating complex research workflows. By combining frontier AI models, scientific intelligence, and modern software infrastructure, the company is transforming how scientific discoveries are made.

Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Menlo Ventures, and Anthropic, the company has raised $13.5M in seed funding and is building category-defining AI technology at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology.

As a Senior Product Engineer (Member of Technical Staff), you'll build and scale the core product experiences powering the company's AI agent platform. You'll own full-stack product features end-to-end, develop intuitive interfaces for interacting with AI systems, and build reliable software used by scientists and researchers.

This is a rare opportunity to join a small, high-caliber AI-native engineering team where you'll have significant ownership, work directly with AI researchers and scientists, and solve some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and scientific discovery.

What You'll Do

• Build and own full-stack product features across the AI agent platform

• Develop user-facing experiences for interacting with AI agents, workflows, and scientific tools

• Design and implement frontend-heavy applications using TypeScript and modern web technologies

• Build scalable backend APIs, integrations, and product infrastructure using Python

• Own critical product surfaces including billing, usage tracking, authentication, permissions, and account management

• Partner closely with AI researchers, scientists, and infrastructure engineers to translate complex capabilities into intuitive products

• Build reliable systems that enable scientists to interact with advanced AI workflows

• Improve product quality, performance, reliability, and user experience through rapid iteration

• Design AI-native engineering workflows and leverage coding agents to accelerate development

• Make product and technical decisions across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers

• Collaborate with a small, highly technical team to ship impactful features quickly

• Own projects from initial idea through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration

Ideal Candidate Background

Experience Requirements

• 3–7 years of software engineering experience

• Experience building modern web applications and AI-powered products

• Experience owning product features end-to-end from concept through production

• Experience working at high-growth AI startups or technically ambitious companies

• Experience building full-stack applications with strong frontend ownership

• Experience working in fast-moving, high-autonomy environments

• Demonstrated ability to independently drive projects and make technical decisions

• Founding engineer or early-stage startup experience preferred

Technical Requirements

• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Python

• Experience building modern frontend applications and user interfaces

• Experience designing and building backend APIs and services

• Experience developing AI-powered products or workflows

• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance, and user experience

• Experience building enterprise SaaS features such as billing, authentication, permissions, and account management

• Experience with cross-platform application development including desktop, mobile, or API-based systems

• Strong engineering fundamentals across software design, architecture, and scalability

• Experience working with AI coding tools and AI-assisted development workflows

• Ability to rapidly understand complex technical domains and build intuitive products

Education

• No specific degree requirement

• Strong technical background and demonstrated software engineering ability preferred

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills

• High ownership mentality

• Excellent collaboration across Engineering, Product, AI Research, and Scientific teams

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity

• Self-directed and proactive

• Strong product and design instincts

• Customer-focused mindset

• Strong attention to detail and product quality

• Ability to move quickly while maintaining engineering excellence

• Passion for solving complex interdisciplinary problems

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $200,000 – $300,000

• Competitive Equity Package

• Fully On-site Environment (South San Francisco, CA)

• Visa Sponsorship Available

• Opportunity to build cutting-edge AI research infrastructure

• Direct ownership of AI-native product experiences

• High-impact Product Engineering role

• Collaboration with AI researchers, scientists, and world-class engineers

• Exposure to frontier AI technologies and scientific applications

• Opportunity to define engineering practices at an early-stage company

• Rapid career growth opportunities

• High-performance, AI-native engineering culture

Why Join

This is an opportunity to build the future of AI-powered scientific research.

You'll create intelligent agent experiences, full-stack product systems, and developer workflows that enable scientists to solve complex problems faster and unlock new discoveries.

As a Senior Product Engineer, you'll have broad ownership across the product stack while collaborating directly with AI researchers and scientific experts to build technology that can make a meaningful impact on the future of biology and healthcare.