Formation Bio
formationb.com
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Drug Discovery
Drug Discovery AI
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How Formation Bio hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
50%
Reposted roles
0%
Formation Bio scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 14 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 50% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Formation Bio is a tech and AI driven pharmaceutical company focused on more efficient drug development, founded in 2016 as TrialSpark. It acquires drug candidates and takes them through clinical trials using data and AI, and it hires site reliability, software and data engineers and data scientists. The company is headquartered in New York, United States.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Formation Bio over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
76/100AI adopter
Languages
Python62%
SQL23%
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster23%
PyTorch8%
Ray8%
TensorFlow8%
Databases
Snowflake38%
Cloud & platforms
Spark62%
GCP31%
GitHub31%
AWS23%
AI & ML
LLM31%
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Full Formation Bio tech stack
36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$232k
Typical range
$202k – $307k
Open positions
17
17
Jobs
Senior
47.1%
Staff
11.8%
Principal
11.8%
Architect
29.4%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 8 | $232k | $232k – $307k |
| Staff | 2 | $217k | $202k – $232k |
| Principal | 2 | $267k | $267k |
| Architect | 5 | $267k | $202k – $307k |
Highest paying role
Director, Business Development - Search & Evaluation
$307k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Formation Bio
By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
32/100
Slowing
Open positions
17
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
163 days
faster than 10% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Leadership
40% ▼
Backend
20% ▲
Data Science
10% ▲
DevOps
10% ▲
Finance
10% ▼
HR
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Terragrunt to stack
Sep 2026
Added Tool Use to stack
Sep 2026
Added Function Calling to stack
Sep 2026
Added Embeddings to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
10
Hiring now
4
Countries
1
Busiest office
New York
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New York
United States
HQ
Boston
17 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 10-50 est. staff $248k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Leadership, Backend
Boston
United States
Plant / site
Boston
17 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 53% engineering 10-50 est. staff $248k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Leadership, Backend
San Francisco
United States
Plant / site
San Francisco
7 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 71% engineering 10-50 est. staff $242k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, Backend, Leadership
Raleigh
United States
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff $232k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science
Chicago
United States
Regional office
Chicago
Philadelphia
United States
Regional office
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
Regional office
Washington, D.C.
Houston
United States
Regional office
Houston
Austin
United States
Regional office
Austin
Manhattan
United States
Regional office
New York
Jobs
$186k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
dbt
AI Agents
Machine Learning
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTofu
Docker
GitHub
Apply
$186k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
Embeddings
Function Calling
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Apply
$186k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
Python
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTofu
Terragrunt
Vercel
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Apply
$186k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
Python
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
OpenTofu
Vercel
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Apply
$214k – $267k per year • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
dbt
AI Agents
DevOps
Terraform
OpenTofu
Docker
GitHub
Apply
$214k – $267k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • New York
Apply
$162k – $202k per year • Hybrid • Bachelor's Degree • Boston • New York
GCP
Cybersecurity
CAPA
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$214k – $267k per year • Hybrid • 7+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Boston
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply
$186k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • Raleigh • Boston
Python
SQL
Snowflake
AI/ML
Spark
Dagster
dbt
LLM
Apply
$178k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • PhD • Boston • New York
Python
Spark
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Ray
Federated Learning
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$178k – $232k per year • Hybrid • 3+ years exp • PhD • New York • Boston
Python
Spark
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
LLM
Edge AI
Machine Learning
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$205k – $267k per year • Hybrid • 5+ years exp • PhD • New York • Boston
Python
Spark
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Ray
Federated Learning
Apply