Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Genesis Therapeutics' world-class software team as a Principal Engineer and contribute to groundbreaking drug discovery through machine learning and computational chemistry. You will build and maintain complex computational chemistry workflows, provide technical insights, collaborate with scientists, scale data infrastructure, and mentor engineers. This role requires deep thinking, expertise in computational chemistry and drug discovery, and experience in production code. Genesis offers a competitive salary, equity, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work on high-impact projects.

Requirements

• Be a deep thinker who reasons from first principles, balances attention to detail with architectural thinking, and has an investigational curiosity to find the root cause of a problem
• Be comfortable working across all levels of the software stack, building intuitive APIs and libraries for computational chemists
• Have experience working in the fields of computational chemistry and drug discovery
• Have experience writing production code and driving projects to completion

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain complex computational chemistry workflows for drug discovery
• Provide technical and scientific insights to the head of engineering and head of computational chemistry on software architecture
• Work closely with computational chemists and CADD scientists to productionize new computational methods for molecular property prediction
• Help scale our data infrastructure to handle billions of datapoints and hundreds of thousands of parallel QM and molecular dynamics jobs
• Lead, mentor and coach engineers - both from chemistry and computer science backgrounds

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) program
• The opportunity to work on high impact tools and products that are immediately deployed to accelerate the discovery of new medicines
• Strong technical coworkers in AI, software, and chemistry, who all have a powerful mix of intellectual curiosity and humility. The team reads and discusses 1-2 machine learning or chemistry papers every week to stay on top of the field and inspire new ideas