Python Engineer for Scientific Workflows & Drug Discovery

Iambic Therapeutics, Inc; Boston; On-site; PHP 8,125,000 - 10,625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid healthcare

401K matching

Uncapped vacation

Onsite gym and dining

Job summary

Iambic Therapeutics is seeking a Software Engineer to build Python-based software for computational chemists and ML researchers. You will help design, implement, deploy, and support cloud workflows and applications used in drug discovery.

The role collaborates across chemistry, ML, and data teams, with emphasis on production-grade code, reliability, and customer-focused tooling to accelerate research and decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and five or more years of software development experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python skills and experience writing clear, tested, maintainable production code.
• Experience running scientific or batch workloads on AWS.
• Experience with Prefect or another workflow orchestration system.
• Familiarity with computational chemistry workloads such as molecular dynamics or docking.
• Familiarity with the machine learning model lifecycle
• Strong service mindset, clear communication, and a genuine interest in helping scientists be effective.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with computational chemists and machine learning researchers to understand research needs and deliver practical software solutions.
• Build and maintain Python applications, libraries, APIs, and command-line tools.
• Develop reliable workflows for drug discovery workloads.
• Improve orchestration, monitoring, and recovery for workloads on AWS and neo-clouds such as Modal and Lambda.
• Integrate scientific applications with shared data, compute, and model services.
• Troubleshoot issues, document tools, and help scientists use them effectively.
• Contribute to design, testing, review, deployment, and production support.

Skills

Python

Production-grade code

Communication

Service mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

AWS

Prefect

Modal

Job description

Iambic Therapeutics is seeking a Software Engineer to build Python-based software for computational chemists and ML researchers. You will help design, implement, deploy, and support cloud workflows and applications used in drug discovery.

The role collaborates across chemistry, ML, and data teams, with emphasis on production-grade code, reliability, and customer-focused tooling to accelerate research and decision making.