Founding Product Engineer, Clinical Systems Platform

RDI - Your IVD CRO; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

RDI is building the software that runs a modern diagnostics CRO. This role provides technical ownership of the platform, working directly with the CEO and users to decide what to build, write the code, ship it, and own the outcome.

You will own architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and production reliability, turning prototypes into reliable production systems while improving complex workflows with AI where it adds leverage.

Qualifications

• You are a product engineer who can actually ship production software.
• Comfort across the stack and comfortable inheriting code you did not write.
• You care about users, reliability, data integrity, and whether the system solves the problem.
• You do not need a product manager to turn ambiguity into a spec.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the internal software RDI already uses to run clinical studies.
• Build new products across study planning, operations, data, regulatory workflows, and automation.
• Turn rapidly developed prototypes into reliable production systems.
• Own architecture, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, authentication, security, migrations, and production reliability.
• Work directly with clinical, laboratory, data, and operating teams instead of layers of management.
• Understand ugly real-world workflows and make them simpler.
• Use AI aggressively where it adds leverage without outsourcing engineering judgment.
• Decide what should be built, bought, integrated, automated, or left alone.
• Diagnose failures to root cause and improve the system.

Skills

Full-stack proficiency

Production software

Ownership

AI integration

System architecture

Regulated software awareness

Tools

CI/CD

Monitoring

Authentication

Security best practices

Cloud platforms

Job description

RDI is building the software that runs a modern diagnostics CRO. This role provides technical ownership of the platform, working directly with the CEO and users to decide what to build, write the code, ship it, and own the outcome.

You will own architecture, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and production reliability, turning prototypes into reliable production systems while improving complex workflows with AI where it adds leverage.