Senior Software Engineer, London

Isomorphic Labs; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering technology company in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive innovation in drug discovery. You'll work in a dynamic environment, developing ML-based software platforms that enhance biomedical breakthroughs. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, experience in enterprise programming, and a passion for advancing health through technology. Competitive salary and hybrid work model are offered.

Benefits

Innovative work culture

Collaboration with interdisciplinary teams

Opportunities for career progression

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with software design / architecture skills.
• Extensive programming experience writing production code using mainstream programming languages.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Work on backend and fullstack engineering for scientific applications.
• Build a state-of-the-art platform for ML research.
• Optimize computing resources for large scale training and inference.

Skills

Strong software engineering experience

Enterprise programming in Python, Java, C++, or Go

Experience with Kubernetes

Building scalable platforms on cloud

Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams

Adaptability across the tech stack

Passion for learning

Education

MSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Django

SQLalchemy

PostgreSQL

Job description

Isomorphic Labs is applying frontier AI to help unlock deeper scientific insights, faster breakthroughs, and life-changing medicines with an ambition to solve all disease.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured starting with better and faster drug discovery.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was launched in 2021 to advance human health by building on and beyond the Nobel-winning AlphaFold system. Since then, our interdisciplinary team of drug discovery experts and machine learning specialists has built powerful new predictive and generative AI models that accelerate scientific discovery at digital speed.

Our name comes from the belief that there is an underlying symmetry between biology and information science. By harnessing AI’s powerful capabilities, we can use it to model complex biological phenomena to help design novel molecules, anticipate how drugs will perform and develop innovative medicines to treat and cure some of the world’s most devastating diseases.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. We are continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Every day, and with each new breakthrough, we’re getting closer to the promise of digital biology, and achieving our ambitious mission to one day solve all disease with the help of AI.

Software Engineer, London or Lausanne

We are looking for software engineers at the Senior, Staff or equivalent levels.

We are here to advance human health, by reimagining drug discovery with the power of artificial intelligence.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured by better and faster drug discovery.

Our values exist in service of that future. We think they’ll help us bring it closer, too.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you.

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was founded in 2021 and is led by Sir Demis Hassabis. Our aim is to usher in a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for some of humanity’s devastating diseases.

Our foundations are built on the success of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, but we didn’t stop there! We are continuing to develop and implement state-of-the-art technologies as we move towards our goal of dramatically accelerating and improving the process of designing and bringing new medicines to patients.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. The company is continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Your impact

We are looking for outstanding software engineers to work on different aspects of our ML-based software platform such as: data, backend and fullstack engineering, ML engineering, as well as technical and cloud infrastructure. We are keen on receiving applications from individuals falling at the intersection of one or more of these fields.

This is an exciting opportunity for versatile software engineers to be working in a fast-paced and research-facing environment within a small team. You will contribute significantly to a world-class ML-based software platform set to transform the biopharmaceutical world. We need creative thinkers ready to redefine how drugs are designed with the power of AI.

Working in a highly creative, iterative environment, you will be partnering with leading engineers, scientists and ML researchers to build the critical platform driving that transformation. This is a newly created role and you will need to use your previous experience and show initiative in order to fully carve out your contribution.

What you will do

Depending on your experience and background, you can be expected to work on one or more of the following domains:

• Ingestion, management and serving of scientific data
• Backend and fullstack engineering for the buildout of scientific applications and scientific data management applications
• Building a state-of-the-art platform for conducting ML research with a high velocity and reliability
• Building key MLOps components for transferring models from research to production at scale
• Working on low-level performance optimization to increase the efficiency and performance of ML models and infrastructure
• Optimizing and maximally leveraging our compute resources and fleet of accelerators for large scale training and inference

Skills and qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with software design / architecture skills
• Extensive enterprise programming experience writing production code using mainstream programming languages such as Python, Java, C++ or Go
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud computing
• Experience building secure/scalable platforms/products on cloud
• Demonstrated ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and environments
• Great degree of adaptability and a willingness to work across domains and different parts of the tech stack when needed
• Demonstrate ongoing career progression / trajectory and a passion for learning
• Msc in computer science, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

In addition to the essential qualifications listed above, we also expect successful candidates to have some of the following qualifications:

• Expertise in Python
• Experience with the management of scientific and experimental wet labs data in a pharma context
• Experience building backend systems for web applications, using technologies such as Django, SQLalchemy, Pydantic, PostgreSQL
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining relational data models with Python-based interfaces
• Experience developing frontend applications in a scientific context
• Experience building, optimizing and productionizing large scale deep learning models
• Hands-on experience with cloud engineering in a compute-heavy environment, preferably on GCP
• Hands-on experience optimizing the use of fleets of hardware accelerators
• Experience with low level hardware specific optimization for deep learning
• Experience with life sciences data, including bioinformatics, computational chemistry, and biomedical research data

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it.

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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