Design Technologist, Mithrl
+ Equity
5+ days a week in office
Research lab for discovery science
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Research lab for discovery science
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
5+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help R&D teams go from idea to IND, 50% faster.
Role
Who you are
- Technical Excellence: You are a frontend expert (React, TypeScript, CSS) who views code as a creative medium. You have a track record of leading complex frontend projects and influencing technical roadmaps
- Design Craft: You have a strong foundation in visual and interaction design and you apply these with a high degree of intentionality. You understand information density, data visualization, and scientific workflows
- Domain Curiosity: You do not need a biology degree, but you need to care about the problem. Building interfaces on top of protein-protein interaction networks, biomarker data, and ontology graphs requires genuine intellectual engagement with the domain
- Experience: 5+ years in product design or frontend engineering, with a significant focus on design technology, prototyping, or building design-centric products at scale
- Startup Mindset: You are comfortable working from first principles in a fast-paced environment. You ship fast, iterate, and do not wait for perfect requirements
- Product Thinking: You do not just build what is on the roadmap. You understand the why behind features and advocate for the best end-to-end user experience
What the job involves
- As a Design Technologist at Mithrl, you will sit at the intersection of design, engineering, and artificial intelligence. This is a high-impact individual contributor role where you will bridge what is possible with what is usable
- You will work directly with our Design Leads and collaborate daily with our Head of Product, engineers, and scientists. You are not just building interfaces. You are defining how researchers at the world's largest pharmaceutical companies interact with one of the most complex biological knowledge systems ever built
- This is a role for a builder who has deep visual craft and deep technical fluency, and knows how to use both at the same time
- Bridge Design and Code: Partner closely with a small team of product designers to transform high-level concepts into elegant, functional products used by thousands of researchers every day
- Own Complex Frontend Surfaces: Lead frontend initiatives for our most technically demanding product areas, including knowledge graph visualizations, ontology explorers, and AI-native query interfaces
- Build Advanced Prototypes: Create high-fidelity, interactive prototypes that leverage real biological data and APIs to test complex interactions and AI-driven workflows. Your prototypes need to hold up under production conditions
- Shape Architectural Decisions: Participate in technical planning, code reviews, and ongoing platform evolution. You will influence how we think about our UI architecture across EOS (our enterprise product) and Finn (our self-serve platform)
- Establish Patterns: Lead frontend initiatives that set the standard for our UI design system, ensuring our product remains performant, accessible, and scalable across both products
- Evolve Our Design System: Contribute to and maintain a robust design system. Develop reusable components that ensure visual and brand consistency across our entire platform
- Innovate with AI: Experiment with emerging AI tools and techniques to accelerate our design-to-code pipeline. We use AI aggressively in our own internal workflows and expect you to push what is possible here
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with engineering and product leaders to ensure that design intent is preserved from discovery through deployment
Our take
Designed by scientists for scientists, Mithrl is an AI platform that accelerates the hypothesis-to-product pipeline, helping researchers derive insights from their data. Its agentic AI significantly reduces R&D time by using natural language processing to develop customised workflows, with transparency and repeatability at its core.
Designed for the Biotech and Pharma industries, Mithrl has accessibility and understanding built into its very foundations. Its workflows help customers to align, integrate and interpret theories from complex datasets, all with little technical know-how required.
With seed funding announced in 2024, Mithrl is expanding its go-to-market team and platform capabilities. In a world where AI is used in place of understanding, Mithrl is a refreshing tool for scientists to quickly glean insights and act on them accordingly.
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Company
Company benefits
- Comprehensive PPO health coverage through Anthem (medical, dental, and vision) + 401(k) with top-tier plans
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Vivek Adarsh
(CEO & Co-Founder)A graduate research assistant from UC Santa Barbara who completed a PhD there in computer science.
Shara Balakrishnan
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously an AI Researcher at UC Santa Barbara and Cemvita.
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