Backend Engineer — AI Platform for Drug Discovery

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Los Altos (CA); Sur place; USD 140 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

MaxIT Consulting is seeking a Backend Engineer, Applied Agents to design, build and operate the agent layer and backend systems powering AI-driven workflows in a drug development setting. You will work with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, vector databases, and RAG systems on-site in Los Altos, CA, collaborating with founders, domain experts, and early customers to deliver reliable, auditable AI solutions.

This on-site role requires relocation or residence in the Bay Area and authorization to work in

Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping production backend systems end to end.
• Strong API design, data modeling and reliability.
• Hands-on experience with LLM systems, RAG and vector databases.
• Experience with agent runtimes, tool calling and sandboxing.
• Ability to ship quickly with incomplete specs using AI coding tools daily.
• On-site in Los Altos, CA, Bay Area work authorization.

Responsabilités

• Build the agent runtime and harness, tool-calling infrastructure, sandboxed code execution and agent memory.
• Own reliability and observability of multi-step agent tasks.
• Design and build backend services and APIs on Python, FastAPI and Postgres.
• Design and operate vector databases, semantic search and RAG systems, tuning quality and latency.
• Build large-scale ingestion, cleaning and indexing pipelines for scientific and regulatory documents.
• Ground AI outputs in source data with traceable, verifiable citations.
• Work directly with founders, domain experts and early customers, owning outcomes.

Connaissances

Backend engineering

API design

Data modeling

Databases

System reliability

LLM systems

Agent runtime

Tool calling

Sandboxing

Outils

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

LangGraph

Claude Code

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Description du poste

MaxIT Consulting is seeking a Backend Engineer, Applied Agents to design, build and operate the agent layer and backend systems powering AI-driven workflows in a drug development setting. You will work with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, vector databases, and RAG systems on-site in Los Altos, CA, collaborating with founders, domain experts, and early customers to deliver reliable, auditable AI solutions.

This on-site role requires relocation or residence in the Bay Area and authorization to work in