Software Engineer Product
Chai DiscoveryVisit Chai Discovery website
AI molecular-design company building models and a computer-aided design suite for drug discovery.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Chai Discovery
Chai Discovery develops generative AI software that predicts and reprograms biochemical molecular interactions to help scientists design biomolecules and medicines.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will turn foundation-model capabilities into production tools for drug designers. You will build interfaces for molecular structures and scientific workflows, adapt models to real tasks, maintain reliable services, use data to improve products, and translate scientific requirements into engineering work.
Requirements
- 2+ years building and owning production products end to end
- Experience with React or Vue
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with a Node, Go, or Python backend
- Fluency with automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-engineers
- Ability to understand customer needs and translate scientific requirements into engineering work
Responsibilities
- Build AI-powered product tools for drug designers
- Turn model capabilities into usable scientific workflows
- Render large molecular structures interactively
- Design interfaces for scientists to work alongside models
- Maintain automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring for 24/7 services
- Instrument products, analyze data, and iterate
- Translate scientific requirements into engineering work