Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?
Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.
What You’ll Do:
About our Teams:
At Tempus, products are owned and developed by small, autonomous teams composed of developers, designers, scientists, and product managers. You and your team set the goals, build the software, deploy the code, and contribute to a growing software platform that will make a lasting impact in the field of cancer research and treatment.
As part of the Tempus One Platform engineering team, you’ll play a key role in building horizontal GenAI solutions that power innovation across the company. We partner closely with product and engineering teams to integrate state-of-the-art GenAI capabilities into a wide range of products, enabling them to deliver smarter, more impactful experiences.
- You've got a few years of experience working on software development teams, and can help lead in technical analysis & design, evaluating tradeoffs, and establishing best practices
- You love exploring hard problems and solving them with data-driven, iterative software development
- You understand the challenges and appreciate the rewards of a distributed and event-based architecture
- You've worked in fast-paced, agile environments and helped keep projects on track, troubleshoot roadblocks, write documentation, and coordinate cross-team collaboration
- You enjoy learning from and collaborating with a diverse, talented team and mentoring junior team members
- You've got experience in both frontend and backend technologies.
- You’re proficient in TypeScript and/or Python.
Bonus points for:
- Experience in NodeJS, NestJS, FastAPI, React, Postgres, Jest, Pytest
- Experience in GenAI
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with CI/CD
- Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes, BigQuery and Cloud Storage
- Experience in biotech, genomics, and/or precision medicine
Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver projects in service of quarterly goals of the team
- Navigate ambiguity and remain resilient through ups and downs
- Work collaboratively with leadership to set realistic ambitious goals, breaking those goals down to smaller projects for the team to execute on
- Support the growth of teammates by taking into account their skills, background and workstyles
- Give constructive feedback, coaching more than criticizing and avoiding blem to solve the right problems. Ultimately, disagreeing and committing when necessary.
- Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements
- Proactively identify issues with technical dependencies of your project that are owned by other teams and surface them
How you’ll be supported:
- Regular 1:1’s with Manager for support and feedback
- Weekly Architecture Reviews meetings with the rest of the engineering team
- Weekly Engineers Unite meetings providing an opportunity to learn more about how other teams work or present new things you have built
- Opportunity to participate in quarterly Engineering peer mentorship program
- Bi-annual Innovation weeks to explore self-directed projects
- A wide range of active guilds across the company – giving you space to learn, contribute, and connect with others who share your interests
Pay Range:
The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from Illinois and may vary for other locations (California, Colorado, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
We bring together one of the world’s largest libraries of multimodal clinical and molecular data with a robust suite of AI tools to help physicians personalize care in real time, connect patients with therapies and clinical trials, and enable partners to accelerate discovery and development of new treatments.
With ~8 million de-identified research records and 350+ petabytes of data, Tempus partners with more than half of U.S. oncologists and the majority of the top 20 global pharma companies. Our teams are pioneering work across oncology, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, and beyond—transforming how care is delivered and therapies are developed.
At Tempus, every role contributes to our mission: to help each patient benefit from the experiences of those who came before.
For more information, visit tempus.com.
Why Work With Us
We’re looking for people who can change the world. People who question the status quo and refuse to shy away from tough problems. For builders who are never done building, and the learners who are never done learning. Passionate individuals with undying curiosity who want to take on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced—head on.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most of the team follows a hybrid policy, with some roles allowing for a fully remote arrangement and some roles being onsite only.
