Senior Software Engineer, BenchSci
Core Infrastructure
$120-170k
+ equity
2 days a week in office
AI for biomedical research
Open for applications
AI for biomedical research
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$120-170k
+ equity
2 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To exponentially increase the speed and quality of life-saving research by empowering scientists with the world's most advanced biomedical artificial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7 years working as a developer with experience in a DevOps or Infrastructure-focused role
- Experience defining and deploying sophisticated architectures using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)
- Familiarity with reference cloud architectures and developing stacks on Kubernetes
- Experience planning, leading, and executing large infrastructure migrations
- Aptitude for handling repetitive tasks through automation
- Expertise in any programming language; Python considered an asset
- A background in computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, software design, and the ability to audit code
- Experience troubleshooting production issues and being part of incident response and on-call schedules
- Comfort using AI coding-assistance tools to enable your work
- A passion for building practical and sustainable solutions that serve your fellow developer
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Infrastructure team
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll apply your domain expertise to solve complex
- Cloud architecture challenges; drive design discussions, code reviews, and project-related
- Team meetings; and work on a cutting-edge tech stack to build the systems that power all of BenchSci
- Design and maintain infrastructure supporting our core platform and environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Help create reliable, secure, performant, scalable, and high throughput services for our end-users and other engineers within the company
- Steward BenchSci’s CI/CD pipeline to instill reliability, speed, and recoverability
- Resolve in-bound security, compliance, audit, and quality-of-life issues
- Develop best practices for security, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Serve the engineering organization at-large by investing in systems that predict future needs and improve upon existing processes
Our take
Over the past decade, the cost of bringing a drug to market has increased exponentially. But the number of drugs approved has stayed stagnant, leading to a decline in research productivity. Through the development of AI-assisted software, BenchSci has allowed scientists to rapidly compute data from scientific journals and product catalogues to dramatically reduce these inefficiencies in the R&D process.
The company offers a lateral solution to traditional, manual data analysis to allow for data leveraging. Plus it supplies an automated, comprehensive overview of existing relevant research. These methods have made BenchSci a forerunner in the drug development industry; the company's software is used by leading pharmaceutical companies.
BenchSci continues to invest in its machine learning technology, and in 2023 launched ASCEND. This is software that extracts experimental evidence from internal and external sources to help improve the hit rate of drug trials. It has also raised considerable funds, which supports the continued expansion of the platform.
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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2023
$69.2m
SERIES D
Jan 2022
$45.9m
SERIES C
Total funding: $160.3m
Company benefits
- An engaging remote-first culture that hires the best talent from around the world
- Compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits with an emphasis on mental health
- An annual Executive Health Assessment at Medcan for proactive health awareness
- Three weeks of vacation plus an additional day for every completed year
- A $2000 Annual Learning & Development budget
- Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options
- Additional time-off: 2 weeks for Winter Holiday, every other Friday in July and August, your birthday, and more!
- A $1000 work from home allowance to make your home setup perfect for you
- An Oculus Quest 2 to connect with your team members in Virtual Reality
- An executive coach for managers to assist in leading high-performing teams
- Complimentary Headspace account to support mental wellness and focus
- Complimentary genome sequencing from 23andMe to better understand your health through your DNA
Company HQ
Little Italy, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Dr. Elvis Wianda
(Chief Data Officer & Co-founder)Obtained a PhD studying Health & Medical Physics at the University of Toronto before joining BenchSci.
Dr. Tom Leung
(Chief Scientist & Co-founder)Previously held roles within the University of Toronto as a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Fellow.
Liran Belenzon
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously co-founded and held role as CEO at companies including Standy and Biz-Coupon. Currently a CDL Associate at Creative Destruction Lab.
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