Principal Engineer, BenevolentAI
AI-drug discovery
Open for applications
AI-drug discovery
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
BenevolentAI's mission is to unlock the power of AI to transform drug discovery and bring effective medicines to every patient. Their vision is to drive transformational change through scalable technology solutions that result in a consistent pipeline of successful trials and new medicines for patients.
Role
Who you are
- At least 8 years of professional engineering experience as an individual contributor, with at least 2 years as a staff engineer
- Extensive experience in systems design of big data ETL pipelines using cloud based architectures such as AWS, GCP
- Is able to translate product and sales requirements into a technical roadmap
- Leads the creation of technology improvements that improve the quality of the products in their area of concern
- Experience in mentoring more junior members of the team
- Able to critically evaluate a number of solutions to determine quantitatively the best paths forward using experience and knowledge
- Is able to help others in teams ship their projects providing guidance on solutions that may offer improvements in areas such as effectives, efficiency or velocity to deliver
- Is able to ship an individual project they own with little guidance beyond project requirements
- Communication to a range of stakeholders - from junior engineers to non-technical domain experts from, for instance, the scientific domain in which we deliver our products!
What the job involves
- We are looking for an talented and versatile Staff Engineer to join our Product and Technology organisation
- Your experience and skills will be used in high impact projects helping set technical direction, including in initial design, development or in accelerating delivery of teams
- This will be a key individual contributor role working closely with our VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer
- You will join the team as part of the Product and Technology organisation, working across squads as projects require it
- You will be responsible for leading or facilitating the design of technical solutions for projects you are involved with
- You will be versatile and play multiple roles as the situation demands, from software development, cloud engineering, through to more systems design, depending on your knowledge
- You will collaborate with team members, helping to provide guidance and mentorship
- You may also be required to lead and implement projects as an individual
- You will collaborate with peers in senior architectural positions to help design a joined up end to end platform, deploying engineering best practices and encouraging other to do so
- You will play the role of ‘glue’ across teams, doing the needed, but often invisible, tasks to keep the team moving forward and shipping its work
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is a lot of research being done in the pharmaceutical industry. BenevolentAI say there's a new research paper being published every 30 seconds. They argue this information is not being used in a smart way for the discovery and development of new drugs.
To tackle this problem, BenevolentAI uses artificial intelligence to analyse biomedical information, from clinical trials data to academic papers. They can then identify molecules that have failed in clinical trials and predict how these same compounds can instead be more efficient targeting other diseases.
They argue this approach can dramatically accelerate the discovery of new drugs. They've collaborated with large pharma companies like AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutica. A SPAC merger of 1.5 billion euros included AstraZeneca as an investor and will help BenevolentAI accelerate product development.
It's a big market, with Global Market Insights estimating the global healthcare AI market will exceed $10 billion by 2024. This gives them a big opportunity, but it won't be an easy problem to tackle.
Steph
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
51% female employees
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2019
$90m
LATE VC
Apr 2018
$115m
LATE VC
Total funding: $305m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Put patients first: Everything we do is geared to getting the right medicine to the right patient, faster
- Break boundaries: We deliberately cross traditional boundaries between technology and science, human and machine, to create unique approaches
- Own the solution: We never hold back from contributing our point of view and taking responsibility
- Drive to delivery: We use data to drive decision-making and deliver with the right level of validation
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Joanna Shields
(CEO, not founder)Long career in technology, having previously worked at Google, Facebook and Bebo. Appointed to the House of Lords in 2014 and works as a Digital Economy Adviser to the UK Government.
Michael Brennan
(Co-founder & Non-Executive Director)Previously Head of Corporate Development at BenevolentAI. Before cofounding the company, they were Head of Corporate Development at Proximagen Group and Chief Executive of Novum Securities.
Ivan Griffin
(Co-founder & COO)Worked as a Venture Capitalist for over a decade. Also helped launch Genomics England Ltd, a Company created to deliver the 100,000 Genomes Project as launched by the Prime Minister in 2013. Holds a D.Phil. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Oxford where they also completed a year’s post-doctoral research.
People progressing
Joined as a Biomedical Informatics Manager. Promoted to VP after 10 months, then again to SVP of Informatics and Data.
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