Bio-Data Software Engineer — AI-Driven Research Tools

Arcadia Science; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site at Emeryville

Equity offering

Job summary

Arcadia Science seeks a software engineer at the intersection of biology and technology to build web apps and data infrastructure tying wet-lab and computational teams together. You will ship internal tools for rapid workflows, support data pipelines, and contribute to the Foundry’s AutoOpenRaman interface and data processing pipeline.

You should be curious about science, eager to learn, and capable of collaborating with bench scientists to translate their needs into reliable software.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript; comfortable owning both backend services and frontend applications.
• Experience building data pipelines for scientific data: ingestion, transformation, QC, and storage.
• Ability to work directly with bench scientists to translate workflows into software.
• Deep AI literacy and experience with agentic systems or AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

• Partner with researchers and product designers to identify high-impact problems, then architect and ship solutions through rapid iteration cycles.
• Design, develop, and maintain Arcadia's internal product suite using modern web technologies, building for scalability, performance, and a user experience that works for scientists.
• Build and improve data infrastructure that supports biological research workflows, from ingestion and transformation to exploration and visualization.
• Design and ship a scientific user interface purpose-built for bench scientists, intuitive sample management, run configuration, live acquisition feedback, and results review.
• Build and maintain agentic AI workflows that expand the team's capacity: automating data QC, interpretation, report generation, and other repeatable analytical tasks.
• Own the full lifecycle of your work: scoping, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

AI literacy

Data pipelines

Frontend & Backend

Research collaboration

Job description

Arcadia Science seeks a software engineer at the intersection of biology and technology to build web apps and data infrastructure tying wet-lab and computational teams together. You will ship internal tools for rapid workflows, support data pipelines, and contribute to the Foundry’s AutoOpenRaman interface and data processing pipeline.

You should be curious about science, eager to learn, and capable of collaborating with bench scientists to translate their needs into reliable software.