Scientific Software Engineer

Ganymede; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ganymede is seeking a Scientific Software Engineer to work closely with scientists and engineers to automate processes using their platform. This role offers substantial autonomy and the chance to make a real-world impact in healthcare. Responsibilities include client ownership, software engineering, and contributing to company culture. Ideal candidates will have a strong engineering background and proficiency in analytical programming languages. The position is remote-first with excellent benefits and significant equity opportunities.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO & sick days

Excellent health benefits

Family leave

Health & Wellness stipend

Significant equity

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of full-time experience developing software or writing analytical code.
• Proficiency with analytical programming languages.
• Desire to improve software infrastructure for scientists.

Responsibilities

• Own implementation by working with client executives and users.
• Collaborate with engineers to define architecture for the Ganymede core platform.
• Be a key determinant of company culture.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Curiosity

Education

Computer Science

Physics

Engineering

Tools

Python

Mathematica

Julia

Job description

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Ganymede is building AWS for the sciences, with a mission of improving the world through better healthcare outcomes. We believe that the highest leverage approach to speed up science is through better software and data connectivity.

As a Scientific Software Engineer (SSE), you'll work directly with scientists and engineers to understand their most important problems and automate them away using Ganymede's platform. You'll be the tip of the spear of our efforts to accelerate science, and will have a highly independent and varied role in owning the implementation and success of Ganymede. You will apply your problem-solving, creativity, and technical skills to derive and implement solutions to drive real-world impact.

SSEs are effectively CTOs for clients' Ganymede builds; you'll have substantial autonomy to execute projects end-to-end. Ganymede forms the core data backbone of labs and scientific manufacturing, so you'll wear many hats:

• Client Owner: Own implementation by working with client executives and users to define and prioritize problems, building a deep understanding of their lab instruments and scientific analysis, and then setting up Ganymede's platform pipelines to automate these details. You'll be the expert on your clients' scientific data, processes, and operations
• Software Engineer: Collaborate with fellow engineers to define the architecture needed for the Ganymede core platform, integrate our web backend and infra into client systems, and develop applications to interact with biotech lab instrument hardware
• Culture Carrier: Be a key determinant of our culture, and will help us grow and set norms for the business as we scale
  
  
  

Our Principles

• Improving lives through better medicine: we're intensely mission-focused, and are building a highly scalable business to make an impact on society
• Kindness: we come from a future where all human beings are treated with dignity, inclusivity, and active empathy, so we apply that to ourselves first in how we hire and treat each other
• Transparency: we are one team, and hold that openness is foundational to ensuring fairness, and that our actions tie to our shared mission
• Accountability: we believe that trust is the basis for building anything substantial, and stems from our being accountable to ourselves and each other
  
  
  

Requirements

What we look for:

• At least 2 years of full-time experience developing software or writing analytical code
• Excellent collaboration skills in both written and verbal forms, as well as via clear, cleanly written code
• Strong engineering background, preferably in computer science, physics, or engineering discipline
• Proficiency with analytical programming languages (e.g. - scientific Python, Mathematica, Julia, etc.)
• Hunger, curiosity, and motivation to learn about and solve data problems for clients with the rest of the Ganymede team
• Desire to improve software infrastructure for scientists advancing the health and welfare of people
• Located in, and authorized to work from, the United States; Bay Area preferred
• Availability for approx. 10-15% travel, concentrated in the US West
  
  
  

Pluses (but not required by any means!):

• Experience with external client-facing technical engagements
• Fluency with implementing numerical methods in a non-academic setting
• Familiarity with software development for scientific instrumentation, lab automation, or robotics
• Experience developing software running on cloud infrastructure
  
  
  

Benefits

• Remote-first role and culture, with periodic reimbursed travel for the team to meet together
• Significant equity as an early employee
• Unlimited PTO & sick days
• Excellent health benefits (Medical, Dental & Vision), life, and disability insurance
• Family leave (Maternity, Paternity, Medical, Caregiver)
• Health & Wellness stipend
• Limited 401K match
  
  

Salary Range

• 120K-180K depending on experience

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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