Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI – AI Platform for Life Sciences

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; Los Altos (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting is seeking a Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI to join a venture-backed, early-stage AI company building an AI-native operating system for drug development. Based in Los Altos, this on-site role focuses on end-to-end software spanning backend services, AI workflows, and a customer-facing product.

You will work with Python, FastAPI, Postgres and React/TypeScript, shipping production code, integrating LLMs, vector databases, and search systems, and grounding AI outputs with

Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping production software end to end.
• Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, databases and services.
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript.
• Hands-on production AI with LLMs, agents, or RAG.
• Daily use of AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services with Python, FastAPI, and Postgres.
• Develop applied AI workflows using OpenAI API and LangGraph.
• Create ingestion, indexing, and search pipelines for docs.
• Build customer-facing features from API to React frontend.
• Ensure AI outputs are grounded with traceable citations.
• Collaborate with founders and early customers, owning outcomes.

Skills

Backend development

Frontend with React/TypeScript

LLMs / AI tooling

Production software experience

AI coding tools daily

Tools

Python

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

React

TypeScript

LangGraph

vector databases

OpenAI API

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area) | On-site | Full-time

MaxIT Consulting is looking for a Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI to join a venture-backed, early-stage AI company building an AI-native operating system for drug development programs, already used by leading biopharma companies.

The Opportunity

This role spans the whole stack: backend services, applied AI workflows, search pipelines and the customer-facing product. Pilot customers ask for a feature and see it working days later.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services on Python, FastAPI and Postgres.
• Build applied AI workflows with the OpenAI API, LangGraph, vector databases and search systems.
• Develop ingestion, indexing and search pipelines for scientific and regulatory documents.
• Build customer-facing features end to end, from data model and API to the React/TypeScript frontend.
• Ground AI outputs in source data with traceable, verifiable citations.
• Work directly with founders, domain experts and early customers, owning outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping production software end to end.
• Strong backend fundamentals: APIs, databases and services.
• Comfortable through the frontend with React and TypeScript.
• Hands‑on production experience with LLMs, agents, RAG or vector databases.
• Fast, accountable builder who uses AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor) daily.

Nice to Have

• LangGraph, agent frameworks or RAG systems in production; semantic search and knowledge graphs.
• Enterprise SaaS, healthcare or life sciences products; seed or early‑stage startup experience.

Work Arrangement

On-site role in Los Altos, CA (San Francisco Bay Area); fully remote is not possible. Candidates must live in or relocate to the Bay Area and must already be authorized to work in the United States.