Senior Software Engineer, Formation Bio

AI Foundations

$180-230k

Salary dependent on location. Plus equity

AWS

GCP

Tensorflow

Azure

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

Boston

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2 days a week in office

End-to-end medical trial solutions

Open for applications

End-to-end medical trial solutions

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BAutomationMedTech

Open for applications

$180-230k

Salary dependent on location. Plus equity

AWS

GCP

Tensorflow

Azure

PyTorch

Senior and Expert level

Boston

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2 days a week in office

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BAutomationMedTech

Company mission

To bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
5+ years of software development experience, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality, scalable software in a fast-paced, innovative environment
Proficient in developing distributed systems, services, and cloud-based applications
Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch) and practical experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience with containerization technologies and CI/CD practices. ○ Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, hands-on approach. ○ Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Prior experience with AI model governance or platform infrastructure projects is a plus

What the job involves

Join our newly formed AI Foundations Team as a Senior Engineer I, where you will be an essential contributor to building our core AI infrastructure
This role is focused on hands-on development of our AI Platform, Services, and Governance layers—enabling scalable access to AI models and tooling for the entire organization
You will work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to create, iterate, and refine solutions that establish the foundational bets for our enterprise AI strategy
Design, develop, and maintain core components of our AI Platform, including modules for model profiling & benchmarking, programmatic access, evaluation tooling, and knowledge graph integration
Contribute to building robust pipelines that support both experimental and production-level AI models
Work closely with diverse teams to gather requirements, iterate on features, and ensure that platform solutions meet broad organizational needs
Develop proofs-of-concept and prototypes to validate new technical approaches quickly and efficiently
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, ensuring high system performance and reliability
Support the implementation of cloud-native architectures, containerization, and modern CI/CD pipelines to foster continuous integration and deployment
Contribute to the development and adoption of best practices and coding standards, particularly in the context of AI model governance and scalable infrastructure
Stay abreast of industry trends and innovative techniques used by leading startups to democratize AI and build next-generation platforms

Our take

Clinical drug trials are lengthy and expensive, delaying the supply of vital new drugs to patients and costing lives. For Formation Bio, this is an efficiency issue - one which it hopes to solve with its end-to-end automation solution.

According to the company, its approach has teams running medical trials twice as fast and at half the cost. It's worked so well, in fact, that Formation Bio is looking to take drug development in-house.

Now a Unicorn, the company has secured heavyweights like Pfizer, Sanofi, Novartis and 23andMe as partners. Precisely how it will fare in the Big Pharma ecosystem remains to be seen, but the promise of cheaper drugs and faster innovation is certainly causing a stir in a market that has historically been resistant to both.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

30% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2024

$372m

SERIES D

Sep 2021

$156m

SERIES C

Total funding: $530.3m

Company HQ

Midtown South, New York, NY

Leadership

Benjamine Liu

(CEO)

Worked as a computational biologist at various Neurology departments, following a D.Phil in computational Biology and Psychiatry at Oxford. They are also an Advisor at Harvard Business School.

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