Staff Engineer at DCVC-backed AI biology startup founded by AlphaFold lead

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Job Title

Staff Engineer

Salary

Not Disclosed

Company Description

DCVC-backed artificial biology startup building frontier AI for biochemical networks, founded by the creator of DeepMind's AlphaFold project.

Job Description

You will lead the technical evolution of a proprietary biochemistry search and discovery platform, transitioning it from an internal tool to a production-ready external product. As a high-agency generalist, you will architect cloud infrastructure, design greenfield database systems for ML training, and build production-grade APIs that enable revolutionary research in pharma and energy.

Location

Cambridge, USA or London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Exceptional pedigree: Work directly with a team from DeepMind, CERN, MIT, and Google, led by the founder of the landmark AlphaFold project.
• High-impact ownership: Inherit a functional stack with total freedom to redesign infrastructure and shape engineering practices for a high-growth AI-meets-biology startup.
• Massive scale: Build systems that integrate complex data from global biochemistry databases like UniProt and KEGG to power novel discovery in synthesis and compute.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Evolve the core ML inference service into a production-ready product, managing everything from API enhancements and observability to security hardening and deployment.
• Design and implement a robust database architecture to integrate structured biochemistry data with unstructured experimental results for ML training pipelines.
• Manage multi-account AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform, overseeing the migration of legacy GCP systems and automating CI/CD workflows.
  
  

The ideal candidate

• 5 years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of owning complex technical systems and production services end-to-end.
• Deep expertise in Python and the ML infrastructure ecosystem, including experience with model serving, GPU compute, and data pipeline tooling.
• Advanced proficiency with cloud-native technologies, specifically AWS, Terraform, Docker container orchestration, and relational/vector similarity search databases.
  
  

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