Eikon Therapeutics is looking to solve the problem of discovering novel treatments for life-threatening diseases by employing revolutionary technology at the intersection of chemistry, engineering, computation, and biology. The Principal Engineer for Analysis Software will be instrumental in developing systems that handle massive amounts of high-content imaging data to analyze proprietary microscopy data, enabling the discovery of new drug targets.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, Postgres and Python.
- Experience in multiple strongly typed languages such as C++, C-Sharp or Java.
- Successful track record designing software and systems architecture, including API and database design, commercial application development, cloud services, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with architecting and building analysis software in the biotech field.
Responsibilities
- Build a reliable and scalable software pipeline to extract features from Eikon's proprietary microscopy data.
- Maintain essential computational pipelines for ongoing scientific research.
- Define and evolve the engineering system architecture vision to support system features and user-facing capabilities.
- Lead a small team as technical lead or direct manager.
- Characterize and communicate design trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborate with Product and Program Management to develop high-level roadmaps for key software deliverables satisfying defined system-level business needs and user acceptance tests.
- Stay up to date with emerging trends and advancements in machine learning, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and software engineering practices, and evaluate their potential impact on our internal products.
Other
- Lead a small team as technical lead or direct manager.
- Characterize and communicate design trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to bridge the gap between scientific users and engineers and developers.
- Team-oriented, flexible, able to adapt to rapidly evolving goals and challenges.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in a changing organization with evolving processes.
