Software Engineer, Product

Chai Discovery
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Detail-oriented","Teamwork"]

Product engineers build the Chai software platform for scientists to query models, visualize molecular structures, and interpret data with AI in the loop. Collaborate with designers, ML researchers, and wet-lab teams to make complex science repeatable, delivering reliable, elegant, and data-driven features end-to-end in a fast-moving biotech startup environment.

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Chai Discovery
Chai Discovery
1 year ago

Software Engineer, Product

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Job Summary

Product engineers build the Chai software platform for scientists to query models, visualize molecular structures, and interpret data with AI in the loop. Collaborate with designers, ML researchers, and wet-lab teams to make complex science repeatable, delivering reliable, elegant, and data-driven features end-to-end in a fast-moving biotech startup environment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop and maintain the Chai software platform enabling scientists to query models and visualize molecular structures.
  • •Collaborate daily with designers, ML researchers, and wet-lab teams to make complex science repeatable.
  • •Focus on reliability, elegance and utility on both the product surface and under the hood.
  • •Instrument features, analyze usage, and iterate quickly based on feedback.
  • •Own features end-to-end from idea to production and beyond; write docs and pair-review code.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field.
  • •3+ years building production web applications with modern frameworks (React/Vue, TypeScript/JavaScript, Node/Go/Python back-ends).
  • •Have a knack for finding the smallest amount of code to solve a user problem well.
  • •Care about making pixel-perfect products.
  • •Data-driven: instrument features, analyze usage, and iterate quickly on feedback; Familiar with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring/alerting for 24 × 7 production services
Experience:3+ yearsBiotechBiotechnologyPharmaceuticals
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingDetail-orientedTeamwork
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactVueTypeScriptJavaScriptNodeGoPythonCI/CDMonitoringTestingVisualization

Company Brief

Chai Discovery
Builds foundation AI models to predict and design interactions between biochemical molecules, enabling de novo antibody and drug design to accelerate pharmaceutical discovery and development.
Industry: Biotech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2024
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