Senior Site Reliability 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
- Ability to code and fluency in at least one programming language (Python/Java/Go/C++ preferred)
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
- Good understanding and experience in administering cloud technologies(we work with AWS, but experience with other cloud providers is also a benefit!)
- Comfortable working with Unix-based operating systems
- Good understanding of infrastructure-as-code and tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm
- Experience with cloud networking, cloud operations, automation and workload orchestration
- Basic understanding of network protocols such as TCP, HTTP/S and Load Balancing and the contexts in which they are used(for example, understanding the differences between AWS Application Load Balancer and AWS Network Load Balancer)
- Understanding of quality of service measurement tools (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs)
- Experience with monitoring and alerting solutions (for example InfluxDB/Grafana/Prometheus)
- High-level understanding of database technologies(for example, relational, NoSQL, Graph) and their basic use cases
What the job involves
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be working alongside our autonomous cross-functional squads
- You will advocate high-quality engineering and best-practice in production software as well as providing the infrastructure to both build rapid prototypes and launch production-quality services
- You will promote test-driven-development and other Agile best-practices for ensuring the software is resilient enough for our scientists to rely upon
- You will be a core team member building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure that supports our AI-driven technology
- You will also be adding your input into diverse areas such as authentication, network topology, sharded databases, scalable web services and interfaces to external data sources and APIs
- Implementing software solutions for cloud infrastructure in accordance with specification and best engineering practices
- Working towards improving long-term infrastructure availability and reliability
- Monitoring and handling incident response of the infrastructure, platforms and core engineering services
- Constructing pipelines to automate infrastructure and software deployments
- Troubleshooting infrastructure, network and software issues
- Staying up to date with recent technology trends and tools
- Automating repetitive manual processes and procedures
- Participating in on-call rotation to support Benevolent employees in their day-to-day activities
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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