Software Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team of product managers, designers, engineers and biomedical scientists
• ▹Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable AI systems
• ▹Drive technical decisions and provide context-aware solutions for AI systems in biological research
• ▹Leverage and pioneer evaluation methodologies for continuous product improvement
• ▹Experiment with cutting-edge industry solutions: orchestration patterns, fine-tuning, monitoring, feedback loops
• ▹Lead core stack component development for sustainability, scalability, security and performance
• ▹Foster team growth through code reviews, technical discussions, and mentoring
• ▹Lead agent development and optimize analytical workflows (DuckDB, AWS Athena, Trino, Snowflake, Databricks)
• ▹Participate in a team-wide shared on-call rotation

Requirements

• ▹Driven by impact, excited to empower biomedical researchers with intuitive, AI-driven tools
• ▹Strong collaborative skills with an open, pragmatic mindset
• ▹Clear and effective communicator
• ▹Deep understanding of system architecture, infrastructure design, and resilient distributed systems
• ▹Extensive production experience: continuous deployment, high availability, observability, security
• ▹Curiosity and ideally hands-on experience with AI systems
• ▹Proficiency with Claude Code and other AI software engineering tools
• ▹Fluent English, written and spoken
• ▹Stack: Python, Kubernetes, AWS

Nice to have

• ▹Experience working with spatial transcriptomics data
• ▹Knowledge of distributed computing, databases and serialization technologies
• ▹Front-end development experience
• ▹Direct experience with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Flexible work organization
• ▹Friendly and informal working environment
• ▹Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

About the company

Owkin is an agentic AI company building Biological Artificial Superintelligence to solve biology problems human researchers alone have failed to crack. Owkin builds K Pro, an AI scientist for pharmaceutical research and strategic decision-making, built on Owkin's unrivalled multimodal patient data network, state-of-the-art AI for biology, and a decade of experience working with pharmaceutical partners.