What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied AI Engineer position at SOPHiA GENETICS?
Are you a senior engineer or product leader with a passion for embedding AI into the way organizations work? Join our team to build internal products, automations, and AI-powered workflows that transform how every function — from sales to R&D — operates. You'll move across the business, identifying high-leverage opportunities and shipping the tooling that makes modern ways of working real.
If this sounds like you, join the SOPHiA GENETICS team as our new Applied AI Engineer and enable us to build the internal capabilities that accelerate our mission of democratizing data-driven medicine for patients worldwide.
This is a hybrid opportunity, requiring 3 days onsite our corporate office in Boston, MA.
Our Mission
We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.
Your Mission
We're hiring an applied AI engineer to embed across our company, build internal products and automations, and help our tech and product organization work better with the rest of the business. You'll move function by function — sales, finance, operations, R&D, marketing — shipping the tooling and AI workflows each team needs. Reporting to our Head of Corporate Strategy, you will also act as a key partner to the our tech and product teams for best practices on delivery, roadmap success, and cross-functional alignment.
The value you bring:
You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.
Business recognition and accolades include:
US:
Outstanding Medical, Dental & Vision with 90% Employer Contribution
Company matched 401K at 4%
Company-paid short & long-term disability insurance
FSA commuter benefits
20 Days PTO, increasing to 25 with tenure; 5 Days Sick and 14 Public Holidays
Free EAP
Our DNA
Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous
Our Virtues
At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.
At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal
The Process
We use the power of AI to help our partners make decisions. If you’re utilizing AI in your search and application process, why not use some of these prompts, or read our AI guide.
‘What impact can I expect to have on the world by working at SOPHiA GENETICS?’
‘I have an interview with SOPHiA GENETICS. What should I know before I meet with them?’
‘I am a *job title* - What can SOPHiA GENETICS offer my career?’
Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.
Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.
We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.
Starting Date: ASAP
Location: Boston, MA - Hybrid 3x/week in office
Contract: Permanent
MA Pay Range: $88,000 - $168,000
Disclaimer: The estimated pay range represents a good faith estimate of what the Company expects to pay a successful applicant for the listed position and applies specifically to candidates based in Massachusetts. Due to various factors, the estimated pay range may vary in other locations. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base range may be updated accordingly. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications, job related skills, years of experience, location, relevant education or training, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.
If this sounds like you, join the SOPHiA GENETICS team as our new Applied AI Engineer and enable us to build the internal capabilities that accelerate our mission of democratizing data-driven medicine for patients worldwide.
This is a hybrid opportunity, requiring 3 days onsite our corporate office in Boston, MA.
Our Mission
We believe there is a smarter, more data-driven way to make decisions in healthcare and our cloud-native AI powered SOPHiA DDM Platform makes that vision a reality on a daily basis. You will have direct input to our mission to democratize data-driven medicine for the ultimate benefit of cancer and rare disease patients across the globe.
Your Mission
We're hiring an applied AI engineer to embed across our company, build internal products and automations, and help our tech and product organization work better with the rest of the business. You'll move function by function — sales, finance, operations, R&D, marketing — shipping the tooling and AI workflows each team needs. Reporting to our Head of Corporate Strategy, you will also act as a key partner to the our tech and product teams for best practices on delivery, roadmap success, and cross-functional alignment.
The value you bring:
- Build internal products and automations: Embed with teams across the company, identify high-leverage opportunities, and ship AI-powered tools and workflows that change how the work gets done.
- AI enablement: Bring modern AI capabilities into every function and help teams adopt them.
- Process and tooling improvements: Examine and improve internal tooling, data flows, and processes — including end-to-end data architecture, starting with sales.
- Internal consulting on tech and product practices: Partner with engineering and product leadership on team structure, roadmap discipline, ownership, and modern ways of working (SCRUM, code reviews, retros).
- Tech reporting and monitoring: Own how we report on tech and product performance internally, and continuously improve it.
- Cross-functional alignment: Support tech and product communications and alignment with the rest of the business.
- Hands-on delivery support: Sometimes roll up your sleeves and help teams ship.
- 5 years of experience with a senior engineer or product manager background from a top tech company building complex products.
- Strong hands-on building skills — you ship working software, not just diagrams. AI fluency is essential (LLMs, automation, modern AI tooling).
- Dialed into modern engineering and product practices.
- Confident operator - you can walk into any function, diagnose what's broken, and drive change.
- Strong change management instincts - you can win over skeptical teams and make new ways of working stick.
- Comfortable moving between strategy conversations and shipping code in the same week.
You will be joining an organization with the patient at the heart of every decision and action, driven by purpose as we pursue exponential growth.
Business recognition and accolades include:
- World's most innovative companies (Top 10)
- World's smartest companies (Top 50)
- 100 Best Places to Work in Boston
- Top 10 European Tech Startup
- Top 10 European biotechs startup to watch
- Top 25 East-Coast Biotech to watch
US:
Outstanding Medical, Dental & Vision with 90% Employer Contribution
Company matched 401K at 4%
Company-paid short & long-term disability insurance
FSA commuter benefits
20 Days PTO, increasing to 25 with tenure; 5 Days Sick and 14 Public Holidays
Free EAP
Our DNA
Like the strands of DNA itself, SOPHiA GENETICS and the team are deeply interconnected and reliant on each other to deliver. There are common threads across the team. Things that bind us together. Those things are Relentless Curious; Resilient & Nimble and Fearlessly Adventurous
Our Virtues
At SOPHiA GENETICS we established our 7 Virtues to clarify how our principles show up each day through action. We Decide; We Do; We Collaborate; We Innovate; We Empower; We Adapt and We Learn.
At the centre of our Virtues is our Mantra, We Care, which provides a constant reminder of the compassionate, benevolent, and hopeful nature of our mission and how it should be threaded through each of our Virtues and everything we do. Learn more about our DNA and Virtues on our Careers portal
The Process
We use the power of AI to help our partners make decisions. If you’re utilizing AI in your search and application process, why not use some of these prompts, or read our AI guide.
‘What impact can I expect to have on the world by working at SOPHiA GENETICS?’
‘I have an interview with SOPHiA GENETICS. What should I know before I meet with them?’
‘I am a *job title* - What can SOPHiA GENETICS offer my career?’
Apply now with your CV and any supporting information.
Suitably qualified candidates will be invited through an interview and screening process where you will speak with members of our Talent Acquisition Team, the hiring leader alongside key colleagues and stakeholders from across the business. If you need additional support for accessibility, please contact our TA team for assistance.
We appreciate the value external partners can bring, but we operate a direct-hiring model and we are not looking to utilize agency support at this time. All hiring is controlled by Talent Acquisition, potential partners should liaise through TA and not our hiring teams please.
Starting Date: ASAP
Location: Boston, MA - Hybrid 3x/week in office
Contract: Permanent
MA Pay Range: $88,000 - $168,000
Disclaimer: The estimated pay range represents a good faith estimate of what the Company expects to pay a successful applicant for the listed position and applies specifically to candidates based in Massachusetts. Due to various factors, the estimated pay range may vary in other locations. Should the level or location of the role change during the hiring process, the applicable base range may be updated accordingly. Compensation decisions are dependent on several factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications, job related skills, years of experience, location, relevant education or training, internal equity, and alignment with market data. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.
Salary : $88,000 - $168,000