Jobs at Iambic Therapeutics

Oversee implementation, configuration, maintenance, security, integration, and support of enterprise business applications across Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance, Facilities, and Operations. Manage access controls, system upgrades, vendor relationships, data migrations, and process improvements. Partner with business leaders to optimize workflows and ensure compliance with privacy, audit, and regulatory requirements.

Leads budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, consolidated three-statement financial modeling, cash runway scenarios, and executive reporting for a public biotech. Partners with scientific and business leaders on resource allocation, program economics, and partnership deal modeling. Oversees planning and reporting cycles, collaborates with Accounting and Procurement, improves FP&A systems and processes, and mentors finance professionals.

Draft and negotiate commercial, clinical, research, SaaS, data, and vendor agreements for a biotech company. Lead clinical contracting, advise on contractual risk and healthcare compliance, implement and administer the CLM platform, develop templates and playbooks, use AI tools for contract work, manage outside counsel, and train internal teams on contracting processes.

Leads Iambic’s global intellectual property function, including patent drafting and prosecution, portfolio strategy, freedom-to-operate and patentability analyses, trade secret protection, invention disclosures, IP diligence, licensing, collaborations, trademarks, and contested proceedings. Advises scientists and executives while managing outside counsel, IP budgets, publication reviews, and AI-assisted IP workflows. Requires substantial life sciences patent experience, hands-on small molecule prosecution, global portfolio expertise, and the ability to build an in-house IP function.

Provides first-line IT support for hardware, software, network, and end-user issues; manages help desk tickets, SLAs, onboarding and offboarding, documentation, device maintenance, and lab technology. Installs and maintains lab systems, coordinates IT changes, supports service-management processes, and identifies opportunities to improve service reliability, efficiency, and business continuity.

Leads and scales Iambic’s procurement function, developing sourcing strategies, supplier partnerships, preferred vendor programs, and procurement processes. Responsibilities include managing strategic negotiations, monitoring supplier performance, advising leadership on sourcing decisions, building a procurement team, and implementing a new ERP/procurement platform such as Coupa. The role requires significant biotech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences procurement experience and is based at the San Diego headquarters.

Research and develop post-training methods for large multimodal transformer models used in drug discovery. Responsibilities include supervised and parameter-efficient fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reward design, experimentation, hyperparameter optimization, inference optimization, benchmarking, and productionization. The role involves collaborating with machine learning engineers, software developers, computational chemists, medicinal chemists, and biologists while writing robust, tested, and documented research and engineering code.

Research and develop post-training methods for large multimodal transformer models used in drug discovery. Responsibilities include reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, reward design, experimentation, inference optimization, benchmarking, and productionizing ML systems. The role collaborates with software engineers, machine learning researchers, computational chemists, medicinal chemists, and biologists to align model objectives with therapeutic applications. Candidates will also write, test, document, and communicate high-quality research and engineering work.