SandboxAQ - Staff Software Engineer, Life Sciences
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Requirements
• 7+ years of professional software development experience, with deep proficiency in Python and modern architectural patterns. • Proven ability to operate independently in high-ambiguity environments, moving from ideation to functional code with high velocity. • Hands-on experience with cloud orchestration (Kubernetes, Batch systems) and workflow management tools like Airflow. • Technical expertise in building REST APIs, managing database systems (ORMs, schemas), and utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). • Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of shipping systems in fast-moving, customer-facing environments. • Domain expertise in drug discovery, cheminformatics, or advanced materials. • Experience delivering scientific code for R&D projects involving simulation or numerical optimization. • Familiarity with High-Performance Computing (HPC), GPU programming, and optimization. • Exposure to AI applications involving knowledge graphs, AI agents, or multi-agent systems.
Responsibilities
• Orchestrate Technical Delivery: Partner with scientific teams to audit workflows, diagnose technical blockers, and take full accountability for the end-to-end technical execution of client contracts. • Orchestrate Technical Delivery: • Architect and Develop Solutions: Design and deploy high-velocity code to extend existing tools, or build new frameworks for wrapping scientific logic and automating complex R&D workflows. • Architect and Develop Solutions: • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as the technical translator between non-technical researchers and product teams, validating proposed solutions and ensuring they meet rigorous scientific requirements. • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: • Scale and Optimize Infrastructure: Own the deployment and maintenance of cloud-based compute resources and data pipelines, ensuring stability and performance throughout the contract lifecycle. • Scale and Optimize Infrastructure: • Pioneer Technical Integration: Lead the integration of internal core technologies, such as LQMs and Agentic systems, into bespoke client environments to solve major scientific challenges. • Pioneer Technical Integration:
Benefits
• US Tier 1$184K – $276K • US Tier 2$165.6K – $248.4K • US Tier 3$147.2K – $220.8K • At SandboxAQ, we are committed to competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation; we continuously benchmark our salaries and total compensation to premium markets to ensure our competitiveness. Individual pay within the above range is determined by job-related skills, experience, education, and geographic location. • With a focus on pay equity and ensuring opportunity for future salary progression, our typical practice is to hire within the first half of the base salary range for a given role and level. This approach allows us to reward performance and increasing expertise consistently as your career develops with us. • We use geographic pay tiers to reflect the pay differences in local markets:For the US: • For the US: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Wash D.C., Boston • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Portland, Boulder, Austin, Denver, Chicago, San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, LA • Tier 2: • Tier 3: Everywhere else in the US • Tier 3: • For the UK: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of London, Cambridge, Oxford • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in the UK • Tier 2: • For Canada: • Tier 1: Applies to candidates within 50 miles of Toronto & Vancouver • Tier 1: • Tier 2: Everywhere else in Canada • Tier 2: • SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. • We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. • At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. • We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. • Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. • Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. • Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. • Work-Life Balance: • Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. • Career Development: • SandboxAQ Welcomes All • We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. • Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. • Equal Employment Opportunity • Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. • Accommodations • Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews • Read: • Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
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