Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Seattle, WA
Senior level
Healthtech • Biotech
The Role
This role involves building and improving cloud infrastructure, deploying resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, enhancing developer experience tooling like CI/CD, and supporting large scale model training for AI workloads. Candidates will work across scientific code, AI model inference, and data management related to biotechnology applications.
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About Xaira Therapeutics

Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development.

About the Role 

The engineering team at Xaira works on critical systems throughout Xaira, and we are looking for a senior software engineer with cloud engineering experience to build our internal platform to support engineers, AI scientists, and a cutting edge AI-powered biotechnology company.

We are a small, pragmatic team and you will find yourself:

  • Collaborating with world experts in AI and Life sciences regularly.
  • Shipping code daily, with a culture of learning from mistakes and iterating quickly.
  • Being expected and empowered to work autonomously.
  • Coming onsite to our office (and lab!) - this is not a remote position.

Key Responsibilities

These are examples of areas that we’ll want you to take point on:

  • IaC and cloud resource deployment.
  • Improving the supporting tooling around core software asset types at Xaira (packages, services, etc.)
  • Improving our developer experience tooling, such as CICD.
  • Building out our HPC GPU cluster used for large scale model training.

We do expect our engineers to work across the company, and you should expect to have the opportunity to work on and learn about systems that touch the following areas of the company:

  • Scientific code and research engineering for accelerating scientific progress.
  • Large scale AI model inference and tooling.
  • Data warehousing and transport for large biological datasets.
  • Lab information management and supporting automation engineering.

Qualifications

  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field
  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • 2+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or developer platform teams
  • Expertise in an IaC tool such as terraform
  • Familiarity with AWS compute, persistence, and networking technologies
  • Experience with python, git
  • Prior experience with HPC/GPU cluster performance for AI workloads.
  • Deep understanding of AWS and compute deployment options.
  • Prior experience developing infrastructure for biotech/life sciences workloads.

Compensation

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. The base pay range for this position is expected to be $140,000 - $200,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.
Xaira Therapeutics an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that our strength is in our differences. Our goal to build a diverse and inclusive team began on day one, and it will never end.

TO ALL RECRUITMENT AGENCIES: Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or employees. XairaTherapeutics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Top Skills

Python
The Company
Brisbane, CA
112 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Xaira Therapeutics is an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in artificial intelligence to learn the language of life and transform how we treat disease. The company seeks to rethink the drug discovery and development process from end-to-end by bringing together leading talent across three core areas: machine learning research to better understand biology, expansive data generation to power new models, and robust therapeutic product development to treat disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area

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