Software Engineer (Planning & Optimization)

Software Engineer (Planning & Optimization)

San Francisco, CA

The Company:

Our client is an innovative start-up company that is developing advanced, cloud-controlled robotic systems that enable the production of individualized drugs at scale. Their customers include some of the largest global organizations in the advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing space.

Based in San Francisco, California, our client is backed by many top-tier tech and life science investors, including Casdin Capital, Lux Capital, Y Combinator, and more.

Position Overview:

At our client, their team operates at the intersection of robotics and biopharma. As a

Full-Time Robotics Software Engineer, you will work alongside a highly collaborative team

of robotics engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, computer scientists,

other software developers and biopharma scientists to build robotic systems that

automate the manufacturing of life-saving cell therapies.

Projects include, but are not limited to, parallel process planning, data integration,

developer tooling, imitation learning and customer-facing applications. Your strengths and

passions will determine which team you assist and all teams rotate frequently to promote

cross-functional collaboration and rapid learning for all members. This role is for you if you

are a strong problem solver, a motivated and hard-working engineer, and excited to work at

an early-stage startup.

As a member of our Software team, you will:

• Design, build, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain high-quality production
• software.
• Develop end-to-end cloud and networking infrastructure.
• Develop robust and optimal job scheduling algorithms.
• Develop code for current projects in all areas of the code development
• stack including customer-facing projects and internal tool development.
• Work with AWS and cloud systems to ensure code pipelines are building
• and deploying code as expected.
• Design and implement developer tooling.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
• Strong background in Python and data science.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate, curious, and eager to learn.
• Self-starter and comfortable working in a fast-paced, technically challenging startup environment.
• Prioritize organization and detail orientation.
• Ability to handle multiple project and task assignments simultaneously.
• Strong communication skills that clearly express ideas and design details in meetings, team presentations, whiteboard brainstorming sessions, and various technical documentation.

Additional Qualifications – Considered a plus:

• Experience with Linux/Unix systems.
• Experience with cloud technologies, specifically AWS.