# Software Engineer - Internship

COMPANY Octant is a well-backed team of experienced scientists and entrepreneurs at the frontiers of biology, chemistry, and computation. We are a small molecule therapeutics company combining high-throughput synthetic biology, generative chemistry, agentic workflows, and ML to repeatedly develop precision medicines for genetically defined diseases. JOB DESCRIPTION This is a ~12-week internship for summer 2027, onsite in Emeryville, CA, with a flexible start date. We’re working at every level of our platform to bring more frontier drugs to patients faster. We’re building toward a vision where scientists and agents make better decisions and reach useful answers sooner. You’ll work with engineers and scientists to build agentic systems that connect knowledge, computational tools, instruments, and laboratory work. Depending on the project, you might integrate tools into an agent workflow, improve a data pipeline, or build interfaces and visualizations for our scientists. You’re an engineer who wants to develop software that transforms the way our teams work with our discovery platform. You’re comfortable with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and keep up with the newest

- **Id**: 4217862
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/octant-software-engineer-internship>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Emeryville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T22:54:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T03:27:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3057
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drug Discovery, AI for Science

## Company

- **Id**: 680682
- **Name**: Octant
- **Domain**: octant.bio
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/octant-2>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 1500
- **Max**: 2000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: week
- **Usd annual**: 104000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T03:27:10Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 51
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T09:04:09Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 104000
- **Is top pay**: no

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